27-404: Richard Hope may refer to: Richard Hope (actor) , British actor Richard Hope (footballer) (born 1978), English footballer Dick Hope , Scottish footballer [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
54-560: A leading position in British theatre; both with his own productions (notably The Cherry Orchard and this year's Julius Caesar ) and as a generous host to world theatre giants: Tadeusz Kantor and Athol Fugard among them....It would also be fair to say that the major portion of the subsidies making all this possible came from the Hammersmith Council, which this year alone provided £200,000 to Riverside, although its audience
81-820: A punch post that was missing its padding; he continued the run of the show with an "authentic" bandaged hand. With Mark Rylance he was one of the six actors in Mike Alfreds ' Cymbeline at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in 2001. In 2002, the Royal National Theatre staged Simon Bent 's adaptation of John Irving 's A Prayer for Owen Meany with Aidan McArdle as the title character and Hope as John Wheelwright. Hope has been in several police dramas: Superintendent Harold Spence in Agatha Christie's Poirot , Barry Purvis for two series of Murder Investigation Team and semi-regular Rod Jessop,
108-657: Is a British actor who gained recognition from Brideshead Revisited as the doltish junior officer, Hooper, under Jeremy Irons ' charge. He is best known for playing Harris Pascoe in the UK TV drama Poldark . His theatre career includes portraying Pierre Bezukhov in War and Peace at the Royal National Theatre and having starred as Levin in an adaptation of Anna Karenina by Helen Edmundson . In 2015, he played Hector in The History Boys . In 2018–2019, he starred in
135-678: Is drawn from far and wide. As an Associate Director of the National Theatre from 1980 to 1997, Gill also founded the National Theatre Studio in 1984, which he ran until 1 October, 1990. In his own words: When I set up the National Theatre Studio the development and analysis of acting was a central part of the work, so that, along with commissioning writers, developing directors and designers, investigating non-text based work, and producing work for
162-474: Is good to salute the opening of a new theatre; it is thrice good to be able to do so with almost unqualified praise for its first production. At the Riverside Studios, Peter Gill (who is in charge of the whole enterprise) has directed The Cherry Orchard with a cast so astonishingly suitable that I began, hallucinatorily, to believe that they had been assembled first, and that Chekhov had then written
189-487: Is now best known for his work as a director and playwright. In 1964, he became Assistant Director at the Royal Court and Associate Director in 1970, best known there as the director of three hitherto under-rated plays by D. H. Lawrence , presented as a group in 1968. In 1969, the Royal Court also presented two of his own first plays, The Sleepers' Den and Over Gardens Out , "which revealed that Gill could evoke with
216-700: The Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Lyric Theatre . Clive Barnes of the New York Post described it as ‘One of the true highlights of a lifetime of theatre-going'. During 2000, under coach Geoff Thompson (author of Real Punching ), Hope learned to wrestle for Jim Cartwright 's Hard Fruit at the Royal Court Theatre , directed by James Macdonald . During a performance of Hard Fruit , Hope broke his wrist when he hit
243-472: The Hammersmith arts centre, formerly television studios. His first Riverside production was a staging of his own version of Chekhov 's The Cherry Orchard , which opened to press acclaim on 12 January, 1978 (starring Judy Parfitt as Ranevskaya and Julie Covington as Varya, again with a setting designed by William Dudley). Writing for The Sunday Times , theatre critic Bernard Levin said: It
270-580: The National Theatre as Pierre Bezukhov in the Shared Experience joint production of Leo Tolstoy 's War and Peace , adapted by Helen Edmundson and directed by Nancy Meckler and Polly Teale . In 1998, he starred in another Tolstoy adaptation by Helen Edmundson , playing Levin in the Shared Experience production of Anna Karenina . Hope was associate director of this production which toured internationally, including runs at
297-513: The National Theatre Studio , where Hope helped devise and develop The Visit and Street of Crocodiles for Théâtre de Complicité . 1988 saw The Visit production as part of the 'Théâtre de Complicité at the Almeida' season, before the theatre closed for refurbishment; the production was revised in collaboration with The National Theatre in the Lyttleton stage in 1991. The production
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#1732782788698324-537: The Richard Eyre / David Hare Company playing Bill Smiley in the premiere of Pravda with Anthony Hopkins before switching to the role of Eaton Sylvester in two extended revivals in the Olivier Theatre. This also included ensemble productions of The Government Inspector with Rik Mayall and Jim Broadbent and Tim McInnerny 's Hamlet , in which he played Horatio. He met Simon McBurney at
351-753: The Sell A Door Theatre Company UK Tour. From 2015 to 2016, Hope continued his long-standing collaboration with Helen Edmundson , playing Sidney Godolphin in the original Royal Shakespeare Company production of her original play Queen Anne , starring Natascha McElhone . In 2017 Queen Anne transferred to the Haymarket Theatre with Romola Garai . He played recurring characters Malokeh and Bleytal ( Silurians ) in Doctor Who , and has recorded several related audios with Big Finish , including Dr Who - Doom Coalition 3: "Absent Friends", which won
378-1172: The BBC Audio Drama Award 2017. From May 2018 through March 2019, Richard played Arthur Kipps in The Woman in Black by Susan Hill adapted into a stage play by Stephen Mallatratt at the Fortune Theatre , London. Richard had already played Jerome in the 2004 BBC Radio 4 version directed by John Taylor as a Fiction Factory production. In 2019, he returned as Harris Pascoe, Ross Poldark's banker and friend, for his fifth season of Poldark with screenplay by Debbie Horsfield . He previously worked with Horsfield on The Riff Raff Element . He also appeared in an episode of Casualty . In 2024 Hope returned to Royal Court Theatre as Wally Saunders in Giant by Mark Rosenblatt, directed by Nick Hytner , with John Lithgow , Elliot Levey , Rachael Stirling , Romola Garai and Tessa Bonham Jones. Haymarket Theatre London "Taken at
405-641: The Flood" (2006) Peter Gill (playwright) Peter Gill OBE (born 7 September 1939) is a Welsh theatre director, playwright, and actor. He was born in Cardiff to George John and Margaret Mary (née Browne) Gill, and educated at St Illtyd's College, Cardiff . An actor from 1957–65, he directed his first production without décor, at the Royal Court Theatre in August 1965, A Collier's Friday Night by D. H. Lawrence . Having begun his career as an actor, he
432-1001: The UK in Donkeys' Years and Noises Off . Hope returned to the Almeida Theatre as Gabriel York in Andrew Bovell 's When the Rain Stops Falling in 2009 and in 2012 as Albany in King Lear with Jonathan Pryce . In 2014, he played Queen Elizabeth I in the UK premiere of Sarah Ruhl 's stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf 's Orlando at the Royal Exchange with Suranne Jones , directed by Max Webster. In 2015, Hope played Hector in Kate Saxon 's production of Alan Bennett 's The History Boys in
459-483: The West End production The Woman in Black as Arthur Kipps. In 1978, Laurence Olivier gave Hope his first professional TV part in an episode pf Laurence Olivier Presents named Saturday, Sunday, Monday by Eduardo De Filippo . Hope worked with Olivier again in 1981 when he appeared in the first and last episodes of Brideshead Revisited , in which he played Lieutenant Hooper. Hope played Ford Prefect in
486-494: The diaries of Joe Orton , for whom he directed a double bill of former television plays by Orton at the Royal Court called Crimes of Passion . In 2007, the British Library acquired Peter Gill's papers and supplementary papers consisting of literary works, theatre administration and correspondence. National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C1316/08) with Peter Gill in 2008-2009 for its The Legacy of
513-467: The economy of means and lyrical skill the circumstances of his Cardiff boyhood." Gill was appointed artistic director of the Riverside Studios in 1976, and on 30 May, 1976, his Nottingham/Edinburgh production of As You Like It (starring Jane Lapotaire as Rosalind, John Price as Orlando and Zoë Wanamaker as Celia, with a stage design by William Dudley ) marked the official opening of
540-557: The first stage production of Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with Ken Campbell 's The Science Fiction Theatre of Liverpool. He also appeared in their 22-hour epic The Warp and The Third Policeman . Campbell introduced him to Jérôme Savary . Hope made his first West End appearance with his musical theater company Le Grand Magic Circus in 1001 Nights at the Shaftesbury Theatre in 1980. He
567-499: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Hope&oldid=1063186917 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Richard Hope (actor) Richard Hope (11 October 1953 in Kettering , England )
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#1732782788698594-694: The local headmaster, in The Bill . His first role in a musical was as Max Kellerman in Dirty Dancing at the Aldwych Theatre in 2010, staying for eighteen months. He played Horst Ehmke in Paul Miller 's revival in Sheffield of Michael Frayn 's play Democracy , which transferred to London's Old Vic Theatre in 2012. This was the third Frayn play he had performed in, having toured
621-482: The main house, the practice and analysis of acting skills seemed an essential part of any programme of work that was in part concerned with process. Plays include: Adaptations and versions: He lived from the 1960s until 2006 in a small flat in the Thameside house formerly belonging to George Devine and later bought by playwright Donald Howarth and his civil partner George Goetschuis. Gill gets several mentions in
648-408: The play round them. What is more, they are achieving this effect on an impossible stage; it is seventy-five feet wide (the players have to sprint, never mind run, if they are to get off at all), absurdly shallow, and lacking even the most rudimentary trappings in the way of flies, a thrust or even wings.... Mr. Gill and his cast have sought success in the only place it can be found: inside themselves and
675-457: The play. The effect is magical; The Cherry Orchard has almost never, in my experience, been at once so harrowing and so glittering; nor its fragile rhythms so finely, surely spun, its development so natural, human and real. When Gill left Riverside in 1980 to be an Associate Director at the National Theatre , a West London theatre critic John Thaxter wrote: It is no exaggeration to say that Gill's four years as director have taken Riverside to
702-823: Was Bertozzo in the UK Tour of Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1979) with Alfred Molina for The Belt and Braces Theatre Company directed by Gavin Richards ending at the Half Moon Theatre in London. Richards played Molina's part when it transferred six months later to the Wyndham's Theatre in the West End. In 1981, Peter Gill cast him in Don Juan and Much Ado About Nothing which started his long association with The National Theatre . In 1984, he joined
729-744: Was invited to Spoleto Festival USA . Hope played Salto in Handmade Films ' 1987 thriller Bellman and True , written and directed by Richard Loncraine , and Hull City A.F.C. fan Malcolm in Mark Herman 's comedy See You At Wembley, Frankie Walsh which won the Student Academy Award . In Piece of Cake directed by Ian Toynton he was ‘Skull' Skelton and he played Mortimer Tundish in both series of Debbie Horsfield 's comedy-drama The Riff Raff Element , with Celia Imrie and Nicholas Farrell . In 1996, he returned to
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