PATRICK GARLAND

'Patrick Garland' (born April 10, 1935) is an actor and a director of British theatre, television and film, and a writer.
Garland was a director and producer for the BBC's Music and Arts Department (1962-74). He served as the Artistic Director for the Chichester Festival Theatre twice between 1981 and 1985 and from 1990 and 1994, where he directed over twenty productions. In 1980 he was responsible for the York Mystery Plays. Among many productions, he directed the revival of ''My Fair Lady'' on Broadway in the early 1980s with Rex Harrison (about whom he wrote ''The Incomparable Rex'') and the musical ''Billy'' with Michael Crawford at Drury Lane, ''Don Giovanni'' and in Japan, Handel's opera ''Ottone''. He directed his own play, ''Brief Lives'', based on the life and writing of John Aubrey, and starring Roy Dotrice in the premiere and Michael Williams in the revival. He also directed Eileen Atkins in his own adaptation of Virginia Woolf's book ''A Room of One's Own''.
Recently Garland has directed Simon Callow in ''The Mystery of Charles Dickens'' by Peter Ackroyd in a tour that culminated in Australia and Broadway, and Joan Collins in ''Full Circle'' by Alan Melville. Garland also worked with Alan Bennett, directing the original stage production of ''Forty Years On''; and for television, directing Patricia Routledge in the second ''Talking Heads'' and Bennett himself in ''Telling Tales''.
Garland directed the film of Ibsen's ''A Doll's House '' with Claire Bloom, Anthony Hopkins and Ralph Richardson and his 1971 television film of ''The Snow Goose'' won Golden Globe: "Best Movie made for TV."
Garland has devised and presented several performances for the Charleston Festival.
Garland directed ''Fanfare for Elizabeth'' at Covent Garden on Queen Elizabeth II's 60th Birthday and in 1989 he directed the Thanksgiving Service in Westminster Abbey for Lord Olivier.
Garland is married to the actress Alexandra Bastedo.

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Books by Patrick Garland

Selected plays by Patrick Garland

Chichester Festival Theatre Productions by Patrick Garland

Minerva Theatre Productions at Chichester Festival Theatre

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Books by Patrick Garland

★ ''Brief Lives'' (1967)

★ ''The Wings of The Morning'' (1989)

★ ''Oswald The Owl'' (1990)

★ ''Angels in The Sussex Air'' (1995), an anthology of Sussex

★ ''The Incomparable Rex'' (1999), a memoir of Rex Harrison

Selected plays by Patrick Garland

★ selected plays by Patrick Garland

Chichester Festival Theatre Productions by Patrick Garland

★ 1975

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★ An Enemy of the People ... directed by Patrick Garland

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★ Monsieur Perrichon's Travels ... directed by Patrick Garland

★ 1977

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★ The Apple Cart ... directed by Patrick Garland

★ 1978

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★ A Woman of No Importance ... directed by Patrick Garland

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★ Look After Lulu ... directed by Patrick Garland

★ 1981

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★ The Cherry Orchard ... directed by Patrick Garland

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★ The Mitford Girls ... directed by Patrick Garland

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★ Underneath the Arches, by Patrick Garland, Brian Glanville & Roy Hudd in association with Chesney Allen ... directed by Roger Redfarn

★ 1982

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★ On the Rocks ... directed by Jack Emery and Patrick Garland

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★ Cavell ... directed by Patrick Garland

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★ Goodbye, Mr Chips ... directed by Patrick Garland and Chris Selbie

★ 1983

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★ As You Like It ... directed by Patrick Garland

★ 1984

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★ Forty Years On ... directed by Patrick Garland

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★ The Merchant of Venice ... directed by Patrick Garland

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★ The Philanthropist ... directed by Patrick Garland

★ 1989

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★ Victory ... directed by Patrick Garland and Matthew Francis

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★ Tovarich ... directed by Patrick Garland

★ 1992

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★ King Lear in New York ... directed by Patrick Garland

★ 1993

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★ Pickwick ... directed by Patrick Garland

★ 1994

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★ Pygmalion ... directed by Patrick Garland

★ 1996

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★ Beatrix ... directed by Patrick Garland

★ 1998

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★ Chimes at Midnight ... directed by Patrick Garland

Minerva Theatre Productions at Chichester Festival Theatre

★ 1992

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★ Vita & Virginia ... directed by Patrick Garland

★ 1993

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★ Elvira '40 ... directed by Patrick Garland

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★ Archive of materials related to Patrick Garland, Theatre Collection, University of Bristol