The remarkable Sir Peter Hall has died, aged 86.<br /><br />The man who created The Royal Shakespeare Co, Sir Peter Hall, has died. He transformed classical and modern UK theatre and gave me a career.— Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew) 12 septembre 2017<br /><br /><br />The legendary producer and director was a powerhouse of British post-war theatre who, along with near-contemporary Peter Brook notably shook up the classics like Shakespeare, and introduced daring new authors to the public; for example, giving Samuel Beckett his premiere in London with “Waiting for Godot” in 1955.<br /><br />Howard Brenton and Tom Littler would like to dedicate this evening’s opening performance of The Blinding Light to the memory of Peter Hall.— JermynStreetTheatre (@JSTheatre) 12 septembre 2017<br /><br /><br />Landmark productions aside, his greatest legacy has to be his founding of, first, the Royal Shakespeare Company and its Stratford-on-Avon theatre, and the National Theatre in London. The latter was especially influential in presenting a host of new works and writers from the early 1970s on, many of whom went on to become greats themselves.<br /><br />Michael Pennington and Felicity Kendall in Stoppard’s translation of The Seagull, directed by the late Sir Peter Hall. pic.twitter.com/4ZCaNeyhyj— Tom Stoppard Quotes (@StoppardQuotes) 12 septembre 2017<br /><br /><br />Born the son of a railwayman, Hall ended up rubbing shoulders with princes and the creme of society, a larger-than-life, serially married lover of luxury attacked by some critics for demanding more public money to put<br />on his shows. Yet he was not aloof, and was very hands on with his productions, which the public mostly loved.<br /><br />#RIPSirPeterHall A titan of theatre. Condolences to his lovely family https://t.co/fFKMcX3zZc— MeeraSyal (@MeeraSyal) September 12, 2017<br /><br /><br />‘Less is more.’ ‘The play’s the thing’<br />Fascinating if you are at all interested in the theatre. <br /><br />What a loss #RIPSirPeterHall https://t.co/IhDTFOxkNf— Poetry, mostly (@AllieEsiri) September 12, 2017<br />
