| Ron Daniels Director |
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| SFO 2005-2006 Season La Forza del Destino Madama Butterfly |
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| Director Ron Daniels says in his American Repertory Theatre production notes that he is staging "The Tempest" as an encounter between Old World "nurture" or "culture" and New World "nature", from which encounter the European exiles will return to their homeland "enriched by a greater understanding of themselves". But self-understanding, here, turns out to be a counsel of despair. (Source) |
| Ron Daniels on directing Antony and Cleopatra British director Ron Daniels likens the experience of directing Shakespeare to falling in love: "Every time you do it you've never done it before, and you're a pioneer, and this is very much the way I feel about encountering any Shakespeare text."(Source) |
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| SFO - 1997 Madama Butterfly |
| Born in Brazil, RON DANIELS was a founding member of the Teatro Oficina in S�o Paulo. In 1977 he was appointed the Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company's The Other Place Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon, England, and in 1980 he became an Associate Director of the RSC. In 1991 he became the Associate Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, MA. Daniels is now an Honorary Associate Director of the RSC and is currently working out of New York as a freelance director. His recent work includes productions for the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain, The Shakespeare Theatre of Washington, D.C., The Public Theatre of New York and the Dallas Theater Center. Among his many productions of Shakespeare are Macbeth, The Tempest, Hamlet, Titus Andronicus, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 (Best Production, Boston Critics Circle), Henry V (Manchester Theatre Critics Award, Outstanding Production) and acclaimed stagings of Richard II and Richard III at New York's Theatre for a New Audience. He has also directed plays by Brecht, Chekhov and Eugene O'Neill and has been responsible for premieres of works by, among others, Pam Gems, J.P. Donleavy, David Edgar, Stephen Poliakoff, Naomi Wallace and Anthony Burgess, with whom he collaborated on an adaptation of A Clockwork Orange. His work for the musical stage includes Il re pastore (his first opera production) at the Boston Lyric Opera, Madama Butterfly for his 1997 San Francisco Opera debut (he also directed the revival here in 1999), as well as Carmen in Houston, Costa Mesa and Detroit. - SFO Profile |
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| The direction, by Ron Daniels, emphasizes the hopelessness of our grim world as well: a group of a barely adult youth gets drafted into the army on stage; or Friar Melitone (an excellent Lucas Meachem), typically viewed as a comic character, threatens the peasants with the ladle he serves them soup with, etc. This gives Forza a mythic portent: the first scene becomes an eviction from the garden of Eden, when the wrath (and then death) of the benevolent dad catching them on the verge of biting the apple, sends Leonora and Alvara in this despairing real world. At least, we read the Arc de Triomphe in the background as an allusion to the Elysium they left behind./ Review_Forza_2005 |