| 词条 | Helen Montagu |
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CareerShe was the Royal Court Theatre general manager in the 1960s.[2] On one occasion, the night when the French ambassador went to see Madeleine Renaud performing in Beckett's Oh, Les Beaux Jours, she received an anonymous phone call after curtain up warning of a possible bomb {{Clarify|date=June 2011}} on the premises, but she did nothing, and told no one. “I can't turn these people out. It would have been silly”, she later commented.[3][1] She produced musicals, including a musical version of Cell Block H, as well as a production of The Who's Tommy, in addition to reworking classics such as Chekhov's The Seagull, and introducing new innovative or original productions (The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin and The Bed Before Yesterday).[4][1] Personal lifeThe Sydney-born daughter of an Australian banker, it was at Sydney University that she met her future husband, a psychologist named Russell Willett; the couple married in 1953.[1] She enrolled in London's Central School of Speech and Drama and worked as an actress briefly before going to work at the Royal Court in 1965 as a casting director.[2] Later she was named general manager. In the 1970s she left the Royal Court. In 1975 she was named as the managing director of H. M. Tennent, basically a repertory company, presenting The Seagull and The Bed Before Yesterday on alternate weeks with largely overlapping casts at the Lyric Theatre.[5] Two years later she became head of Backstage Productions, later establishing her own eponymous company, Helen Montagu Productions.[3] DeathHelen Montagu died, aged 75, from undisclosed causes in London on New Year's Day, 2004.[6] She was survived by her husband, daughters Amanda, Sara and Louisa, and son Johnnie.[3] References1. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/larger-than-life-theatres-very-favourite-gadabout-20040117-gdi6c8.html|title=Larger than life - theatre's very favourite gadabout|date=17 January 2004|website=The Sydney Morning Herald}} 2. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1451112/Helen-Montagu.html|title=Helen Montagu|date=13 September 2018|publisher=|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}} 3. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/jan/06/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries1|title=Obituary: Helen Montagu|first=Nicholas de|last=Jongh|date=6 January 2004|website=the Guardian}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/obituaries/2004/helen-montagu/|title=Helen Montagu - Obituaries - The Stage|date=19 January 2004|publisher=}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.obituaries/WI7WsGa5w38|title=Google Groups|website=groups.google.com}} 6. ^[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/helen-montagu-549232.html Helen Montague obituary in The Independent] External links
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