Creator of the Royal Shakespeare Company who built up the National and championed regional playhousesSir Peter Hall, who has died aged 86, was the single most influential figure in modern British theatre. As a director of plays, especially Shakespeare, Pinter and Beckett, he was very fine. In the opera house he brought real musical understanding to the work of Mozart and Verdi. But it was through his creation of the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AM on September 12, 2017