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 Nick formed the company that would become Rainbow Theatre in 1983, and created Rainbow Shakespeare with his partner, now his wife, Alex Croft, nine years ago, to bring Shakespeare alive for family audiences.
His first production at the precocious age of 12 was Hamlet in the family attic. Since then Shakespeare has always been his first love. His student company, The Rafter Players, toured throughout Scandinavia and Russia with their acclaimed productions of the Bard. He directed Burton and Taylor whilst at Oxford, in the stage and film productions of Doctor Faustus. He then went on to train as a director with the RSC, working with actors such as Michael Williams, Alan Howard and Helen Mirren.
He became Director of the Ludlow Shakespeare Festival before coming as Artistic Director to Worthing’s Connaught Theatre, where he stayed for 10 years, directing every sort of drama, including a new musical that transferred to London’s Shaftesbury. His passion remained in the annual Shakespeare production.
In 1983 he then formed the company that was to become Rainbow – playing to thousands of schoolchildren and students each year. He also is a guest director for various amateur operatic companies in the South of England. His play, Ciphers, on Francis Bacon, was performed last year by the Wick Theatre Company.
PRODUCTIONS:
Rafter Players:
Hamlet, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, Merchant of Venice, All's Well That End's Well, Much Ado About Nothing, The Winter's Tale. SCANDINAVIAN TOURS: Much Ado, Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night
OXFORD: The Hole, Richard III, Under Milk Wood ( with Diana Quick) The Provok'd Wife, Dr Faustus ( with Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor)
GLASGOW CITIZENS: The Daughter in Law
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: The Moderns ( with Elizabeth Spriggs, Janet Suzman, Charles Thomas, Brewster Mason, Norman Rodway)
RAFTER PRODUCTIONS: Alas Poor Fool! ( Danish Tour, Open Space, Mermaid Theatre, Canterbury Festival)
LUDLOW FESTIVAL: I HENRY IV, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, KING LEAR
CONNAUGHT THEATRE WORTHING: Love of Four Colonels, Rope, Ten Little Indians, Lord Arthur Savilles' Crime
MUSICALS: Stop the World I want to get off, Can Can, Gigi, Kiss Me Kate, Man of La Mancha, Vanity Fair, My Fair Lady, Cabaret, Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Leave Him to Heaven, Drake's Dream, Godspell
SHAKESPEARE'S: Macbeth, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Taming of the Shrew
COMEDIES: How the Other Half Loves, Norman Conquests, Absurd Person Singular, Who's Who, Don't Just Lie There Say Something, Jumpers, Bed before Breakfast, Bedfull of Foreigners, Bedroom Farce
DRAMAS: Doctor Faustus, Uncle Vanya, Equus, The Daughter in Law
RAINBOW THEATRE: Smuggler, Find me a Rainbow, Victorian Children. We'll Meet Again, Columbus, Golden Drake, Child in Ancient Greece, Child in Roman Britain, Wind in the Willows, Wizrd of Oz, Cinderella, Fairy Tales 1,2,3,4, World Folk Tales, Aladdin, Snow White, Dixk Whittington
BRIGHTON PAVILION THEATRE: Measure for Measure
BRIGHTON NIGHTINGALE THEATRE: Widowing of Mrs Holyroyd, Amazon Macbeth|
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WORTHING BARN: KING LEAR, THE MARAT SADE
WORTHING MUSICAL COMEDY SOCIETY: Musicals Our Musicals, Hollywood Dreams, Carousel, Fiddler on the Roof, Mack & Mabel
WORTHING OPERATIC: Summer Song, Merry Wives of Windsor
CRAWLEY OPERATIC: Guys and Dolls, White Horse Inn, The Pyjama Game, Desert Song
WICK BARN THEATRE: Ciphers
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A midsummer Night's Dream - Pyramus & Thisbe
Winter's Tale - Leontes threatens Camillo
Winter's Tale - Autolycus sells his wares
Hippolyta & Theseus battle it out
Puck confronts a fairy
Helena pleads with Demetrius
