Stage director and playwright, born in Greenock, Inverclyde, WC Scotland, UK. He became assistant director at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry (19657), and associate director of the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh (19714), where his productions included two of his own plays, Willie Rough (1972) and Benny Lynch (1974). He was an associate of the National Theatre (197585), where he was director of the Cottesloe Theatre (197880), and later became head of drama for BBC Television Scotland (198493).
1985 – London Critics' Circle Theatre Awards for Best Director for The Mysteries 1985 – London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Director for The Mysteries 1985 – 1988 Honorary President of
The Scottish Community Drama Association
Film director
1983 – Ill Fares the Land 1986 – The Holy City 1992 – Six Characters In Search Of An Author 1987 – Aria
Writer
1980 – The Long Riders (film) 1977 – Old Movies 1975 – Willy Rough Play for Today, BBC
Theatre director
1974 – Spring Awakening – Old Vic 1974 – Romeo and Juliet – Old Vic 1975 – The Playboy of the Western World – Old Vic 1976 – Watch It Come Down – Old Vic 1976 – Il Campiello – Old Vic 1976 –
Counting The Ways – National Theatre 1977 (with Sebastian Graham-Jones) – The Passion – National Theatre 1977 – Old Movies – National Theatre 1977 – The Plough and the Stars – National Theatre
1978 (with Sebastian Graham-Jones) – Lark Rise – National Theatre 1978 – American Buffalo – National Theatre 1978 (with Sebastian Graham-Jones) – The World Turned Upside Down – National Theatre
1978 – The Long Voyage Home – National Theatre 1978 – Dispatches – National Theatre 1979 (with Sebastian Graham-Jones) – Candleford – National Theatre 1980 – Hughie – National Theatre 1980 – The
Iceman Cometh – National Theatre 1980 – The Nativity – National Theatre 1980 – The Crucible Hughie – National Theatre 1982 – A Midsummer Night's Dream – National Theatre 1983 – Glengarry Glen
Ross – National Theatre (World Premiere) 1990 – The Ship (writer &
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