Giles Havergal

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This collection includes correspondence, production files, posters, press cuttings and photographs, relating to the work of the Scottish Theatre director, actor, and playwright Giles Havergal.
Giles Pollock Havergal CBE was born on the 9th of June 1938 in Edinburgh. Before becoming the Director of the theatre at Barrow-in-Furness in 1964, Havergal was for a short time an actor on stage and television. He was Director of Watford Palace Theatre (1965-69) where his directing work included the British premiere of Tennessee William's Sweet Bird of Youth. Giles Havergal was artistic director of Glasgow's Citizens Theatre from 1969 until he stepped down in 2003. With director-designer Philip Prowse and playwright Robert David MacDonald, Havergal created a ‘people's theatre’ with low-priced tickets and equal billing for actors.

His adaptations include Graham Greene's Travels with my Aunt which started in Glasgow and later won an Olivier Award in London and PG Wodehouse's Summer Lighting for the Glasgow Citizens'.  He has also taken his one-man version of Thomas Mann's Death In Venice to the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco.

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