| 词条 | John Barton (director) |
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| name = John Barton | honorific_suffix = CBE | image = File:John_Barton_(1928-2018),_Co-founder_of_the_Royal_Shakespeare_Company.jpg | caption = John Barton in 1965. Photo credit: Reg Wilson/RSC | birth_date = {{Birth date|1928|11|26|df=yes}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|2018|01|18|1928|11|26|df=yes}} | birth_place = London, England | occupation = Director, writer | spouse = Anne Righter (1969–2013; her death) }}John Bernard Adie Barton, CBE (26 November 1928 – 18 January 2018)[1] was a British theatre director and (with Peter Hall) a co-founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company.[2] Early lifeJohn Barton was the son of Sir Harold Montague and Lady Barton (née Joyce Wale).[3] He was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge[3] and while at Cambridge directed and acted in many productions for the Marlowe Society and the ADC. At the Westminster Theatre in July 1953 he directed his first London production, Henry V for the Elizabethan Theatre Company. He created a 12-part series for BBC Radio on the medieval Mysteries, inspired by the York Mystery Plays. Royal Shakespeare CompanyIn 1960, along with Peter Hall, he co-founded the Royal Shakespeare Company where Barton was an active director for over 40 years. He directed over 50 productions, some in collaboration with Hall and Trevor Nunn. His landmark productions at the RSC include 1969's Twelfth Night with Judi Dench as Viola, and the 1963/1964 sequence of Histories (with Hall and Clifford Williams). In the RSC's 50th anniversary commemorations (2011) Barton's teaching was acknowledged as one of the lasting reasons for the company's success and he is regarded as one of the most influential directors of Shakespeare of his time.[3][4] At the Aldwych Theatre in London in 1980, Barton directed The Greeks, his adaptations (with playwright Kenneth Cavander) from Homer, Euripides, Aeschylus and Sophocles, ten plays centring on the Oresteia legend, presented in the terse style of the original verse.[5] This was part of an RSC London season which also embraced Trevor Nunn and John Caird's production of David Edgar's eight-hour adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby. "Both projects were daunting undertakings, planned at a time of renewed financial crisis, and both proved remarkably successful."[6] In 1982, while working with 21 RSC members, including Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Michael Pennington, David Suchet, Sinéad Cusack, Ben Kingsley, Roger Rees, Jane Lapotaire and Peggy Ashcroft, Barton recorded nine workshop sessions for London Weekend Television. These programmes, together entitled Playing Shakespeare,[2] were aired that year on Channel 4 and became the source material for Barton's best-selling book of the same name. Though stiff in his resolve against writing on the subject of performing Shakespeare, the surprising success of the televised series convinced Barton to produce a book. It, too, found great success, and remains a popular guide to performing Shakespeare among working actors and aspirants.[7] Playing Shakespeare, the ITV series, is available on DVD. Barton is quoted in an article by Michael Billington as saying "the success or failure of the RSC depends on the quality of the actors. If I've learned anything in my time, it is that if you get the right combination of actors, a production will generally work... But one should always remember that no theatre company is immortal and Zeus could still chuck a thunderbolt at any moment".[4] Barton possessed an encyclopaedic knowledge of Shakespeare and is known to be able to identify one of his plays from a single line of text.{{citation needed| date= January 2018}} A story is told of Barton getting so into his directorial work giving notes one night, that he fell into the orchestra pit, climbed out, and dusted himself off before resuming. A great deal of the past and continuing success of the RSC is attributed to John Barton and to his unrivalled wisdom of language, verse, character, and voice.[3] Barton continued these workshops and conducted Master Classes at BADA (British American Drama Academy) during their Summer in Oxford training programmes. He was awarded the 2001 Sam Wanamaker Prize. Barton believed that the present-day speech of the Appalachian Mountains is the most suitable model for actors who want to imitate the accent used at the time of Shakespeare's plays.[8] In 1969, he married the former Anne Righter, a distinguished Shakespeare scholar at Girton College, Cambridge (later Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge). Anne Barton died in November 2013.[9] Notable stage productions
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References1. ^{{cite web|last1=Doran|first1=Gregory|title=JOHN BARTON: 26 NOVEMBER 1928–18 JANUARY 2018|url=https://www.rsc.org.uk/news/john-barton|website=Royal Shakespeare Company|accessdate=18 January 2018}} 2. ^1 {{cite news|last=Greenfield|first=Patrick|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/jan/18/john-barton-royal-shakespeare-company-co-founder-dies-aged-89|title=John Barton, Royal Shakespeare Company co-founder, dies aged 89|work=The Guardian|date=18 January 2018|accessdate=18 January 2018}} 3. ^1 2 3 {{cite news |last= Kustow |first= Michael | authorlink= |title= John Barton obituary |url= https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/jan/18/john-barton-obituary | date= 18 January 2018|newspaper= The Guardian |location=London| accessdate=18 January 2018 }} 4. ^1 {{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2006/feb/07/theatre.rsc|title=Interview: John Barton|last=Billington|first=Michael|date=7 February 2006|work=The Guardian|accessdate=5 August 2011|location=London}} 5. ^{{cite book|title=The Greeks: The War The Murders The Gods|series=Performance programme|date=2 February 1980|publisher=Royal Shakespeare Company|location=Stratford upon Avon, England}} 6. ^Sally Beauman, The Royal Shakespeare Company: A History of Ten Decades, Oxford University Press, 1982, p. 345. 7. ^{{cite book|last1=Kennedy|first1=Dennis|editor1-last=Wells|authorlink=Dennis Kennedy (author)|editor1-first=Stanley|title=The Oxford companion to Shakespeare|date=2002|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=0198117353|page=39|edition=1}} 8. ^BBC Voice recordings 29 October 2014 9. ^[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10460408/Professor-Anne-Barton-Obituary.html Obituary: Anne Barton], telegraph.co.uk, 19 November 2013
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