at stratford, aged 29, he created the royal shakespeare company.ead the play — embarrass each other and ourselves. the rsc was a company of international standard which attracted the very best actors. peggy ashcroft was one, here in an early hall triumph — a reworking of shakespeare's henry vi plays as the wars of the roses. sir peter was a visionary. he was a colossus, striding the world of the british theatre. in a way it would be iniquitous to pick out any individual production. i think his greatest legacy must be the company he formed, the royal shakespeare company. but the wunderkind suffered a nervous breakdown and quit. only to re—emerge as laurence 0livier‘s successor as director of the new national theatre being built on london's southbank. he revelled in his new role. it is a very, very complex, very stimulating job because it is both concerned with management and with art. he combined creative flair with a phenomenal workrate, administrative skill and formidable powers of persuasion. ah, yes. he transferred national productions like amad

as boss of the royal shakespeare company then the royal shakespeare company then the national theatrehe's always championed state funding for the arts. but with economic hard times come tough questions, our taxpayer subsidies really necessary to foster creative excellence? sir peter hall, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. you have had a long career, more than 50 years in the theatre. you work through good times and bad times, what is the state of the theatre today do you think? well, first of all one must use the word subsidy and say, you know, with less subsidy things would be healthier. i've even heard that said from the right. the thing that worries me is if we stop subsidy next week, there's still a subsidy. there's a subsidy that the artists give. i don't think the public has any understanding whatsoever that although a few great stars may be jolly lucky and may earn a fortune, 90% of people that work in the theatre work for appalling money, absolutely appalling, and that i think is the chief worry about the state of the theatre at the moment. to be clear about this word subsidy, d

indeed i do, that's when i founded the royal shakespeare company. do you accept that it was?t was a golden age but is not as golden as you all make out, i know it wasn't. i wouldn't like to go back to there because it's not... it's not as invigorating, it's not as strong as things are now. what is good now is very very good and if we had any government policy which actually understood what the arts can mean to this country, it could explode in the most extraordinary way. this really isn't about government. yes it is. surely it's about names, it's about peggy ashcroft and ralph richardson and ian mckellen. .. ..and judi dench. and john gielgud and all these people, and the writers, pinter and stoppard... most of them, god save them, were still here until a few weeks ago. my point is they were perhaps that their creative height in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s and we don't seem to be generating a new generation of people are equivalent in stature. i don't think that's true. wait a bit. there's some extraordinary people coming up. but they have to... a writer has to say, "ok, in

to talk about sir peter hall, we have sir trevor nunn with us who succeeded peter at the royal shakespeare companyot want him to go but yes. where on earth do we begin to talk about his contribution? i suppose i can begin at the beginning by saying that all the way back to 1960 i quite coincidentally went to a lecture and heard this young man talking about a vision of the theatre where there would be a permanent company, where it would be shared and antique wall. there would be democracy in the company and it would be an ensemble. it would be the most educated and trained shakespeare company in the world. it would be in competition with the moscow theatre and the berliner ensemble, and that young man turned out to be peter hall and he made that vision happen, the royal shakespeare company, and then went further than that. there was a kind of hubris and madness in him that he also said, we have to have a theatre in london. my company has to be seen in london. my company has to be seen in london as well, a permanent home in london, and so therefore we are not just in london, and so therefore we are

at stratford, aged 29, he created the royal shakespeare company. going to read the play — embarrass each other and ourselves. the rsc was a company of international standard which attracted the very best actors. peggy ashcroft was one, here in an early hall triumph — a reworking of shakespeare's henry vi plays as the wars of the roses. sir peter was a visionary. he was a colossus, striding the world of the british theatre. in a way it would be iniquitous to pick out any individual production. i think his greatest legacy must be the company he formed, the royal shakespeare company. but the wunderkind suffered a nervous breakdown and quit. only to re—emerge as laurence 0livier‘s successor as director of the new national theatre being built on london's southbank. he revelled in his new role. it is a very, very complex, very stimulating job because it is both concerned with management and with art. he combined creative flair with a phenomenal workrate, administrative skill and formidable powers of persuasion. ah, yes. he transferred national production

at stratford aged just 29, he created the royal shakespeare company.lay, and embarrass each other and ourselves. the rsc was a company of international standard which attracted the very best actors. wilt thou accept a ransom? yea or no? peggy ashcroft was one, here in an early hall triumph, a reworking of shakespeare's henry vi plays, as the wars of the roses. sir peter was a visionary. he was a colossus bestriding the world of british theatre. in a way, it would be iniquitous to pick out any individual production. i think his greatest legacy must be the company he formed, the royal shakespeare company. but the wunderkind suffered a nervous breakdown and quit, only to re—emerge as laurence 0livier‘s successor as director of the new national theatre being built on london's south bank. he revelled in his new role. it's a very, very stimulating job, because it is both concerned with management and with art. at 24, he directed the uk premiere of samuel beckett's waiting for godot, a theatrical bombshell. peter shaffer's amadeus was another of the many new

thousands of costumes from the royal shakespeare company go on sale. sir patrick stewart goes through the wardrobe to share some of his memories from the stage that are upforgrabs. and coming up at 3:30, the click team looks at the latest facial—recognition technology. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. theresa may must be clearer about what she wants from brexit before the eu can start trade talks, according to the french president, emmanuel macron. monsieur macron said three key issues must be agreed. the rights of three million eu citizens living in the uk, how much the uk will pay on leaving, and the future of the uk—irish border. it's the first response by a european leader to the prime minister's speech yesterday in florence, in which she suggested a two—year transition period after brexit, meaning the uk would finally break away in 2021. brexit secretary david davis is heading to brussels for the next round of talks with the eu negotiating team on monday. 0ur political correspondent leila nathoo reports. theresa may came here to florence to

at stratford aged 29 he created the royal shakespeare company.y vi plays as the wars of the roses. but his marriage failed as he suffered a nervous breakdown only to re—emerge as laurence 0livier‘s successor as the director of the new national theatre. he revelled in the new role. it is a very complex, stimulating job because it is both concerned with management and with art. he combined creative flair with a phenomenal workrate, administrative skill and formidable powers of persuasion. he transferred national productions like amadeus to the commercial stage and laterformed his own company to direct classics and new plays in london, bath and on tour. he loved opera too, and for six years was artistic director at glyndebourne where he demonstrated that an opera's director can be as important as its conductor. and he married an opera singer, maria ewing, the third of his four wives. he made films too, like this nostalgic portrayal of life in a suffolk village. he gets to here, somewhere — he trips. you will appreciate we can only do it once. it was

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sir peter founded the royal shakespeare company when he was just 29, and directed some of the greatestof a man described as a colossus. we, our sad bosoms empty... it's all about emptiness and weeping. for sir peter hall, the text was always paramount. hisjob as director was commonly thought, to get the playwright to speak. "you want to get to the centre of the play," he said, "not me." i will employee the back again. i find thee must fit for business. it was an approach that had the finest theatrical talent in the land making a beeline to work with him. peter is sublime at directing. when we did antony and cleopatra he'd them actually beating out the line, "0ur royal lady's dead, dead, dead." it took us ages to do. so at the end of the morning we got to, "our royal lady's dead..." there was a pause and peter said, "thank christ!" i think she wants to be that side. give me a stage and three actors and a text, and i have the confidence to know instinctively what should be done. he was, from the outset, a confident, precocious, risk—taking director. with some luck and plenty of good judg

that's the kind of people you work with in the wardrobe department of the royal shakespeare company.re just to take a little piece of history away with them. and my wife has yet found more garments to wear. what am i going to do? put my hand in my pocket, i suppose. prices start atjust £1, so pretty affordable to make all the world your stage. hannah bayman, bbc news. a little update on the uber story, sadiq khan spoke about it yesterday, fully supporting the tfl recommendation. he has added a few lines — i have every sympathy with drivers and customers affected by this decision but their anger should be directed at uber, who have let down drivers and customers by failing, in the view of tfl, to act asa failing, in the view of tfl, to act as a bit and proper operator. he concludes in a statement, i suspect it will take some time before this situation with uber fully plays out. in the meantime, he says, i will continue my work to support innovative businesses in london and create a vibrant and safe taxi and private hire market. that is the late and statement from sadiq khan. let's cat

that's the kind of people you work with in the wardrobe department of the royal shakespeare company.ng, they would flock here just to take a little piece of history away with them. and my wife has yet found more garments to wear. what am i going to do? put my hand in my pocket, i suppose. prices start atjust £1 — so pretty affordable to make all the world your stage. hannah bayman, bbc news. the weather hasn't been too bad. let's find out how the weather hasn't been too bad. let's find out how it's the weather hasn't been too bad. let's find out how it's going the weather hasn't been too bad. let's find out how it's going to look of the next few days. hello. some of us have had this today, some blue skies, sunshine and warmth. but there has been a lot of cloud, securely across southern and western scotla nd securely across southern and western scotland and north west england. the clouds thickened enough for the spot or two of drizzle. a beautiful in kent. you will likely have seen the warmest place with around 20 degrees. 20 degrees possible in the south—east as well. so not to batte

still only 29 years old, the visionary director turned impresario in 1960, found in the royal shakespeare companypeare compa nylj think we need the plates. his radical approach of mixing and classics by with new work by unknown playwrights, such as harold pinter, at first raised eyebrows, then standards and then the reputation of the company and the bard. when sir laurence olivier stepped down as the artistic director of the national theatre in 1973, it was peter hall who took over, transforming it from a small company based in an old building intoa a small company based in an old building into a globally respected theatrical giant with a modern home on the london south bank. all peter's successes at the national theatre would acknowledge without petered out might be no national to i’ufi. petered out might be no national to run. it's easy to forget how hostile the reception was when the national moved to the south bank. it wasn't a popular place. he loved opera, and delighted in his time as a director at glyndebourne, making, in the eyes and ears of many, some of his finest work. sir peter hall w

at stratford aged just 29, he created the royal shakespeare company. actors. wilt thou accept a ransom? yea or no? peggy ashcroft was one, here in an early hall triumph, a reworking of shakespeare‘s henry vi plays, as the wars of the roses. sir peter was a visionary. he was a colossus bestriding the world of british theatre. in a way, it would be iniquitous to pick out any individual production. i think his greatest legacy must be the company he formed, the royal shakespeare company. but the wunderkind suffered a nervous breakdown and quit. only to re—emerge as laurence 0livier‘s successor as director of the new national theatre, being built on london‘s south bank. he revelled in his new role. it‘s a very, very stimulating job, because it is both concerned with management and with art. at 26, he directed the uk premiere of samuel beckett‘s waiting for godot, a theatrical bombshell. peter shaffer‘s amadeus was another of the many new players he directed. he brought waiting for godot to the london stage. beckett's career would not have started without pe

administrators bdo have said: tributes have been paid to sir peter hall, who founded the royal shakespeare companyational theatre. sir peter has died at the age of 86. he'd been diagnosed with dementia in 2011. his career included staging the english language premiere of samuel beckett's waiting for godot and the world premiere of harold pinter‘s homecoming. that's a summary of the news, newsday is coming up at midnight. now on bbc news, it's time for newsnight with emily maitlis. remember this? do the tories expect our support in the light of another 1% pay increase? there isn't a magic money tree that we can shake that suddenly provides for everything that people want. today the government announced it would lift the public sector pay cap for some. are the green shoots of the magic money tree starting to peak through? we ask one of austerity‘s architects if this signals a rethink. also tonight: the campaigners get their way, for now. the government presses the pause button on murdoch's takeover of sky. should we be worried it will turn into this? there's got to be some downside to having a woman

not much doubt who was steering the ship when the young peter hall was directing the royal shakespeare company. let's talk technically first before we motivate it. when i first came to work here as a freelance director, you didn't talk to actors about their text. i mean, it was an infringement on their technique. they knew theirjob. of course they didn't! because there were at least four different ways of handling a shakespearean text. as far as shakespeare goes, yes, i think fashions have changed. peter was known as an iambic fundamentalist. he put the rhythm, really, the iambic meter right at the top of his agenda and i think now quite a lot of people like something more supple, more overtly naturalistic. but you could not dispute peter's mastery of shakespeare. could not dispute his bone deep knowledge of the elizabethan repertoire. in the 19505, hall directed the english—language premiere of beckett's waiting for godot. we should be prepared to do things which the public won't yet like. we should be prepared to lead or to guide or to take soundings on where we think the public taste is goi

shakespeare's plays were staged or what a career spanning more than fifty years he founded the royal shakespeare company ran britain's national theatre and was also a key figure in bringing the works of samuel beckett to public notice peter hall was eighty six is the co-founder of the shakespeare center at the university of california irvine and she's joining us now from there via skype thank you very much for your time peter hall clearly established some of the icons of the theatre was able to do that because of the kind of person he was or was it as much to do with the times during which he was doing it. well it was clearly i mean he was living in a very exciting period for the theater he was the first english director to stage back and he did that as a very young man and captured the attention of tennessee williams and other theater directors and actors of that period and he went on to really revolutionize the production of shakespeare by bringing together a modern sensibility with the real love for the music and poetry of the text and he really just changed how people experience these plays is there

that's the kind of people you work with in the wardrobe department of the royal shakespeare company. away with them. and my wife has yet found more garments to wear. what am i going to do? put my hand in my pocket, i suppose. prices start atjust £1 — so pretty affordable to make all the world your stage. hannah bayman, bbc news. now it's time for meet the author. the english civil war, and a country governed by rivalry and suspicion, by turmoil. in frances hardinge's novel a skinful of shadows we are led into that dark maze by a young girl who carries a special burden. spirits, ghosts, who have taken refuge inside her. this is historical fantasy on a grand scale. a child flees persecution. she gathers a crew of protectors, encounters a strangely interesting dead bear and deals with a fear that we can all too well imagine. welcome. well, let's start with that time in england in the 17th century, the civil war. because it's at the heart of the book, the turmoil. you're obviously drawn to it. it obviously excites you. very much so. i'm always fascinated by historical time periods that a

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what we wanted to note is the founder of the royal shakespeare theater company, sir peter hall. 12th1, he was diagnosed with dementia soon after. here is sir peter hall at the table. interi would like to be a conductsor, i have to say, i've had a lucky life professionally and i've had a wonderful life. if you say to me you're going going back to go and say what would you like to do again? ieferred be a director. >> theater director? >> yes. it's the best job in the world, terribly tiring and terribly demanding. you get paid for living in chekof's head for a month. pretty amazing. >> funding for charlie rose was provided by the following. steves: the dramatic rock of cashel is one of ireland's most evocative sites. this was the seat of ancient irish kings for seven centuries. st. patrick baptized king aengus here in about 450 a.d. in around 1100, an irish king gave cashel to the church, and it grew to become the ecclesiastical capital of all ireland. 800 years ago, this monastic community was just a chapel and a round tower standing high on this bluff. it looked out then, as it does t

sir peter hall — who founded the royal shakespeare company and was a director of the national theatre of samuel beckett‘s waiting for godot and the world premiere of harold pinter‘s homecoming. that is latest news. back to you, victoria. i will be back at 10:30am. thank you. do get in touch with us throughout the morning — use the hashtag victoria live and if you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate. here‘s a message from anna. mothers don‘t realise later pregnancies can also be affected because the placenta does not work so well to filter out the alcohol. why is it that smoking is seen as more harmful than drinking in pregnancy, when it is so much more harmful? if i were son‘s birth mother had just smoked rather than drank in pregnancy we, and he, would not have to live with the effects of his brain injury, which can include so many disabling effects, including aggressive and violent outbursts, acute anxiety, the need to control everything, developmental delay, speech and language issues, learning problems, the need to constantly move, sensory processing problems, a

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shakespeare's plays were staged over a career spanning more than fifty years he founded the royal shakespeare company run britain's national theatre and was also a key figure in bringing the works of samuel beckett's to public notice peter hall was eighty six and every clinton has revealed who she thinks is to blame for last year's election loss to donald trump in a new memoir it's called what happened and it gives clinton's view of her defeat some of her democratic colleagues say rather than looking back it's time to move on diane estabrook has more from washington. in her five hundred twelve page memoir hillary clinton is candid about losing the presidency to donald trump i felt like i had let everybody down clinton blames herself for using a private e-mail account when she was secretary of state that led to a government investigation but she also questions former f.b.i. director james comey motivations for reopening the investigation less than two weeks before the election just stopped my momentum now remember this too jane at the same time he does that about a closed investigation there's an open