Theatre

The following plays have their own page: Goran Simic, Voices of Exile, Private Lives/Broadway, Private Lives/London, The Burma Campaign Benefit, Antony and Cleopatra, and Tango At The End Of Winter.

The following is an outline of some of Mr. Rickman’s stage work. If you have more accurate or more complete information, please write to me.

If you click on the theatre name you will go to that theatre's website, leaving this site, and you must click your "BACK" button to return to this site. If you click on the play's name you will stay in this website, while visiting the page for that play. By clicking on a number below a title, you will see a photo from that production.

For press reviews of these works, check out Gilda’s theater page, Rickman In The Round.

DIRECTING:

1995 The Winter Guest
1992 Ruby Wax - The Full Wax
1986 Live Wax
1983 Other Worlds, May 6
1980 Assistant Director, Desperately Yours

Private Lives/London

Wednesday, 12 December, 2001, Alan Rickman Reading Goran Simic's poems at The International Writers' Season of The Orange Word

Monday, 19 November, 2001 Voices Of Exile, Royal Festival Hall.

18 June, 2000. The Burma Campaign Benefit

15 February, 2000, An Evening In Vienna Alan Rickman hosted a selection of classical greats performed by the Royal Phil, in aid of the Helen Rollason Cancer Care Centre Appeal at the BARBICAN

Banner courtesy of Raffaella
1998 Antony and Cleopatra, ROYAL NATIONAL THEATRE

1992 Hamlet, RIVERSIDE STUDIO
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1991 Tango At The End Of Winter, EDINGBURG and London

1988 LYRIC THEATRE, London
The Peace of Brest, presented by the Vakhtangov Theatre Company of Russia. In Russian, with translation on stage read by Frances De La Tour and Alan Rickman

ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY:
1985-1987 including Broadway run, Les Liaisons Dangerouses
Alan Rickman, Lindsay Duncan, Beatie Edney, Suzanne Burden, Jean Anderson, Barry Heins, Hilton McRae, Hugh Simon, Lucy Aston, Kristin Milward
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1986 Mephisto
Alan Rickman, Sean Baker, Susan Tracy, Penelope Freeman, Fiona Shaw, Andrew Yeats, Clive Russell, Mark Dignam, Emma D'Inverno. Directed by Adrian Noble
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1985 Troilus and Cressida
Colin Douglas, Anton Lesser, David Birke, Sean Baker, Juliet Stevenson, Clive Morrison, Alun Armstrong, Andrew Yeats, Lindsay Duncan, Alan Rickman. Directed by Howard Davies.
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1985 As You Like It
Juliet Stevenson, Fiona Shaw, Hilton McCrae, Alan Rickman. Directed by Adrian Noble.
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1979 Love’s Labour Lost
Alan Rickman, Tony Church, Richard Griffiths, Michael Pennington, David Suchet, Sheriden Fitzgerald, Jane Lapotaire. Directed by John Barton.
1978 The Tempest
Michael Hordern, David Suchet, Ruby Wax, Juliet Stevenson, Alan Rickman. Directed by Clifford Williams.
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1978 Antony and Cleopatra
Alan Howard, Jonathan Pryce, Patrick Stewart, David Suchet, Glenda Jackson, Juliet Stevenson, David Lyon, Alan Rickman, Paul Webster
1978 Captain Swing
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GLASGOW CITIZENS THEATRE:
Fears and Miseries of the Third Reich

ROYAL COURT, London:
1984, July 4 The Lucky Chance
Jonathan Adams, Paul Bacon, Francesca Brill, Christopher Fairbank, Pam Ferris, Denis Lawson, Kathryn Pogson, Alan Rickman, Mark Tandy and Harriet Walter
1983 The Grass Widow
Ron Cook, Alan Rickman, Leslee Udwin, Tracey Ullman
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1983 The Seagull
Alan Rickman, Verconica Duffy, Tony Rohr, Anton Lesser, Stuart Burge, Farrell Sheridan, Harriet Walter, Maggie McCarthy. T.P. McKenna, Alan Devlin, Anna Massey, Pat Rossiter and Jo Phillips-Lane
1983 Other Worlds

HAMPSTEAD THEATRE:
1983 Bad Language Kevin Whately, Prunella Gee, Alan Rickman

BUSH THEATRE:
1980 Commitments
Paola Dionisotti, Deborah Findley, George Irving, Alan Rickman
1981 The Last Elephant

EDINGBURG FESTIVAL:
1977 Measure For Measure and The Devil Is An Ass, double bill which also toured Europe.
The cast included Bernard Lloyd, David Burke, Chris Ryan, David Suchet, Ursula Smith, Alan Rickman and Janet Maw. Later on, Mr. Rickman appeared in Brothers Karamazov, which toured the USSR.

NOTTINGHAM:
1979 Antonio
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BRISTOL OLD VIC, late 1970’s:
Man Is Man
Hamlet, Theatre Royal, September 1977
Neil Stacy, Robert O'Mahoney, Sheila Ballantine, Ronald Forfar, John Woodnutt, Marty Cruickshank, Alan Rickman, Ian Price, Chris Brown, Elyot Marshall, John Telfer, Stuart Fox, Kevin lloyd, Peter Birch, Chris Brown, Peter Birch, Paul Seed, Phillip Manikum, Michael Derrington, Timothy Turnbull, Niven Boyd, Jon Dixon, Richard Kowal, Robert Reynolds, Aaron Shirley and Kevin Stamp
Ubu Rex
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SHEFFIELD CRUCIBLE, late 1970’s:
Nijinsky
When We Dead Awaken
The Carnation Game, The Summer Party

LIBRARY THEATRE COMPANY, Manchester, 1974-1975:
1975 Babes In The Woods
1975 There’s A Girl In My Soup
1975 Saint Joan
1974 Lock Up Your Daughters

RADA 1973:
Uncle Vanya
Measure For Measure
Ghosts

BIRMINGHAM REP THEATRE
1975 1975 Guys & Dolls
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Amateur theatre, early 1970’s, mostly with the Court Drama Group:
The Borgia Orgy, The Hostage, Romeo & Juliet, Measure For Measure, View From The Bridge, Backbone
Most of the photographs on this section were contributed by Suzanne.

My heartfelt thanks to Claire, Karen, and Suzanne