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词条 Alan Burke (director)
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  1. Biography

  2. Select TV credits

  3. Select Theatre credits

  4. References

  5. External links

Alan Burke (18 November 1923 -2007) was an Australian writer and director. His credits include the musical Lola Montez.

Biography

Burke was interested in theatre from a young age and began writing plays. One of them Follow Suit debuted in 1941. According to The Argus "Alan is aged only 17 years, but has been turning out plays so prolifically for the past 4 or 5 years that he must now be reckoned a veteran playwright. Most surprising of all is that there's nothing "youthful" in his writings. Most of his efforts have had all the sophistication and wit of a Coward."[1]

He served in the army from 1941 until 1946.[2] He did a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Melbourne where he was heavily involved in the dramatic society. In 1948 he became a member of the Old Vic Company when they were touring Australia.[3]

He worked with the Melbourne Little Theatre, notably with Frank Thring, and toured Victoria with several shows.[4] He moved to Sydney where he produced plays for the Metropolitan Theatre and Sydney University.[5][6]

In December 1951 he was appointed as producer-manager of the Canberra Repertory Society, which he did for two years.[7] Burke went overseas for three years on a UNSECO fellowship, in England, Europe and the USA.[8][9] On his travels he met Thornton Wilder.[10][11][12]

In 1954 in England in attended a two-month BBC television training course run by Royston Morley. He directed six plays in England. He returned to Australia in 1956 at the request of Neil Hutchinson to work with the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust where he directed eight plays and an opera.[13]

He also wrote the book to a popular musical, Lola Montez.[14]

In 1957 he directed a TV play for the ABC, A Fourth for Bridge. He formally joined ABC TV in 1958 and as an executive producer and director until 1986. He directed operas, ballet, musicals, original Australian drama and Australian adaptations of overseas drama.

Burke later described his process for directing operas:

What I do first is learn the whole opera. I would get the records of the opera and learn every note and all the dialogue. I would play it, and play it etc. After a while images come into the mind – the way an aria sticks out in an opera and so do certain key moments. Then I work out the crucial scenes. What makes it different to any other opera. Why is this opera the opera it is. The ABC Music Department cast all the operas so I played no part in that. Next was the design. I was allocated a designer. We would work out the costumes and sets and flavour and tone and period. Next is the big job of plotting the opera ie pictures and all the detail. I would leave the office and go home and play the opera for weeks, with the script in front of me. I would work on it plotting bar by bar. Then I passed all that information to the cast. I found most singers very grateful for direction.[15]

The team of Lola Montez were commissioned to write an original musical for television, Pardon Miss Westcott. A third musical by the trio, based on Ruth Park's The Harp in the South, has never been performed.

He taught at NIDA and did consultancy for the Australian Film Commission.

[16]

In 1980 he won a Sammy Award for directing A Toast to Melba.[17] He returned to directing theatre in 1982 with Errol Flynn's Great Big Adventure Book for Boys.[18]

Select TV credits

  • Rita (1959) – director
  • A Little South of Heaven (1961) – director

Select Theatre credits

  • Follow Suit (1940) – original play written by Burke[19]
  • Woman Bites Dog (1944) – play written by Burke
  • Over 21 by Ruth Gordon (1947) – directed production at Melbourne University [20]
  • Night Must Fall (1947)
  • The Father by Stringberg (1948) – director
  • Rusty Bugles (1949) – directed at Majestic Theatre, Adelaide
  • The Play's the Thing (1950) – with Frank Thring
  • The Importance of Being Earnest (1951) – toured a production in Victoria – he directed[21]
  • The Man Who Came to Dinner (1951) – with Frank Thring and Pat Hanna at the Melbourne Little Theatre[22]
  • Happy as Larry (1951) – produced play at Sydney Metropolitan Theatre[23][24]
  • The Eagle Has Two Heads by Jean Cocteau (1951) – Wallis Theatre[25]
  • Venus Observed (1951) – produced this at Arrow Theatre in Melbourne[26]
  • Ned Kelly (1952) – directed production in Canberra
  • Harlequinade, The Browning Version (1952) – directed production in Canberra[27]
  • The Skin of Our Teeth (1953) – directed production in Canberra[28]
  • Ring Round the Moon' (1953) – directed production in Canberra[29]
  • The Government Inspector (1953) – directed production in Canberra[30]
  • Hedda Gabbler (1953) – directed Canberra production[31]
  • The Seagull (1954) – directed in Geneva[32]
  • The Cherry Orchard (1954) – directed in Geneva[33]
  • Look Back in Anger (1957) – Australian premiere – with Zoe Caldwell – director
  • The Matchmaker – Australian premiere – director
  • The Rainmaker – Australian premiere – co-directed with Leo McKern
  • Lola Montez – co-author
  • Errol Flynn's Great Big Adventure for Boys (1982) – director

References

1. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8181767 |title=WHILE STROLLING AROUND TOWN: UNMASKING THE SLY INFLUENZA GERM |newspaper=The Argus |issue=29,587 |location=Melbourne |date=21 June 1941 |accessdate=10 February 2017 |page=14 (The Argus Week-end Magazine) |via=National Library of Australia}}
2. ^http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/Veteran.aspx?serviceId=A&veteranId=599031
3. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23036749 |title=What goes on? Brave deeds have not won him a home |newspaper=The Argus |issue=32,590 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=14 February 1951 |accessdate=10 February 2017 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}
4. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22405155 |title=STUDENTS "GO BUSH". |newspaper=The Argus |issue=31,330 |location=Melbourne |date=29 January 1947 |accessdate=10 February 2017 |page=12 (Woman's Magazine) |via=National Library of Australia}}
5. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article72790833 |title=Producer Was With Sir Laurence Olivier |newspaper=The Horsham Times |issue=10,465 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=3 April 1951 |accessdate=10 February 2017 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}
6. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18497966 |title=Stage Whispers |newspaper=The Sunday Herald |issue=127 |location=Sydney |date=1 July 1951 |accessdate=10 February 2017 |page=11 |via=National Library of Australia}}
7. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2844444 |title=Mr. A. BURKE NEW PRODUCER FOR REPERTORY |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=26, |issue=7592 |date=19 December 1951 |accessdate=10 February 2017 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}
8. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2886162 |title=MR. ALAN BURKE RECOMMENDED OVERSEAS STUDY |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=27, |issue=8,072 |date=11 July 1953 |accessdate=9 February 2017 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}
9. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18390504 |title=Theatre Men Share Scholarship |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=36,053 |date=10 July 1953 |accessdate=9 February 2017 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}}
10. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2913279 |title=CANBERRA DIARY |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=28, |issue=8,171 |date=10 March 1954 |accessdate=9 February 2017 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}
11. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205705861 |title=News of the Day |newspaper=The Age |issue=30886 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=30 April 1954 |accessdate=9 February 2017 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}
12. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2902561 |title=Farewell Presentation To Mr. Alan Burke |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=28, |issue=8,199 |date=8 December 1953 |accessdate=9 February 2017 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}
13. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article136302405 |title=CANBERRA DIARY |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=32, |issue=9,527 |date=9 July 1958 |accessdate=9 February 2017 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}
14. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46241233 |title=English star is "Lola Montez" |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly |volume=26, |issue=21 |date=29 October 1958 |accessdate=9 February 2017 |page=39 |via=National Library of Australia}}
15. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.abctvgorehill.com.au/assets/contributions/alan_burke_abc_opera.htm|title=Alan Burke Talks About Early ABC Opera|website=ABC Gore Hill}}
16. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/bawdy-colonial-yarn-thrilled/2007/09/07/1188783488466.html|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|title=Bawdy colonial yarn thrilled|date=8 September 2007}}
17. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article125628314 |title=Gold Sammy award winners |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=55, |issue=16,459 |date=18 October 1980 |accessdate=9 February 2017 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}
18. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article126873944 |title=Alan Burke, Errol Flynn and theatre adventures |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=56, |issue=16,920 |date=24 January 1982 |accessdate=9 February 2017 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}
19. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11327732 |title=SOCIAL AND PERSONAL |newspaper=The Argus |issue=29,402 |location=Melbourne |date=15 November 1940 |accessdate=10 February 2017 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}
20. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article172486518 |title="OVER TWENTY-ONE" |newspaper=The Advocate |volume=LXXX, |issue=4782 |location=Melbourne |date=26 March 1947 |accessdate=10 February 2017 |page=28 |via=National Library of Australia}}
21. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23036749 |title=What goes on? Brave deeds have not won him a home |newspaper=The Argus |issue=32,590 |location=Melbourne |date=14 February 1951 |accessdate=10 February 2017 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}
22. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article206385616 |title=Kaufman-Hart Play Hilarious |newspaper=The Age |issue=29,911 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=10 March 1951 |accessdate=10 February 2017 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}
23. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18488151 |title=STAGE WHISPERS.. |newspaper=The Sunday Herald (Sydney) |issue=125 |location=Sydney |date=17 June 1951 |accessdate=10 February 2017 |page=11 |via=National Library of Australia}}
24. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18223677 |title=Irish Whimsy In Verse Play |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=35,426 |date=7 July 1951 |accessdate=10 February 2017 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}
25. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18226459 |title=Play By Cocteau |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=35,434 |date=17 July 1951 |accessdate=10 February 2017 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}
26. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2844444 |title=Mr. A. BURKE NEW PRODUCER FOR REPERTORY |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=26, |issue=7592 |date=19 December 1951 |accessdate=10 February 2017 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}
27. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article99814253 |title=A.C.T. REPERTORY SOCIETY'S FINE PERFORMANCE |newspaper=Goulburn Evening Post |location=New South Wales|date=13 October 1952 |accessdate=10 February 2017 |page=3 (Daily and Evening) |via=National Library of Australia}}
28. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2898422 |title="THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH" BY REPERTORY |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=28, |issue=8,174 |date=7 November 1953 |accessdate=9 February 2017 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}
29. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2882612 |title=REPERTORY SUCCESS IN NEW FARCE |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=27, |issue=8,030 |date=23 May 1953 |accessdate=9 February 2017 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}
30. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2876819 |title=BLUFF COMEDY IN "GOVERNMENT" INSPECTOR" |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=27, |issue=7,966 |date=7 March 1953 |accessdate=9 February 2017 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}
31. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2888824 |title=FINE ACTING IN NEW REP. DRAMA |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=27, |issue=8102 |date=15 August 1953 |accessdate=9 February 2017 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}
32. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article232003146 |title=Night and Day |newspaper=The Sun |issue=13,987 |location=Sydney|date=10 December 1954 |accessdate=9 February 2017 |page=35 (LATE FINAL EXTRA) |via=National Library of Australia}}
33. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2903690 |title=CANBERRA DIARY |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=29, |issue=8,404 |date=9 December 1954 |accessdate=9 February 2017 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}

External links

  • Alan Burke at AustLit
  • {{IMDb name|0121584}}
  • Alan Burke interviewed by Bill Stephens in the Esso Performing Arts collection
  • Interview with Alan Burke
  • Alan Burke's theatre credits at AusStage
  • Alan Burke at National Film and Sound Archive
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