Terry Hands

Terence David Hands, (9 January 1941 – 4 February 2020) was an English theatre director. He founded the Liverpool Everyman Theatre and ran the Royal Shakespeare Company for thirteen years during one of the company's most successful periods; he spent 25 years in all with the RSC. He also saved Clwyd Theatr Cymru from closure and turned it into the most successful theatre in Wales in his seventeen years as Artistic Director. He received several Olivier, Tony and Molière awards and nominations for directing and lighting.

Early years Hands was born at Aldershot, Hampshire, England, on 9 January 1941. His mother was a German immigrant, though during World War II and for several years afterward, she said that she was from Switzerland. including a prominent production of T.S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral". As Director Emeritus and Artistic Director he directed more productions during his 25 years there than any other director in the company’s history. These included the entire History Cycle with Alan Howard, Much Ado About Nothing A chain smoker with an unhealthy diet, he once remarked "I virtually never eat vegetables, and I never eat a salad, ever".

Hands died from a stroke at Charing Cross Hospital in London, aged 79, on 4 February 2020.

Stage productions Theatregoround – Touring RSC 1966: The Second Shepherd's Play 1966: The Proposal, Anton Chekhov 1967: The Criminals, José Triana 1967: The Dumb Waiter, Harold Pinter 1967–1968: Under Milk Wood, Dylan Thomas

RSC (Royal Shakespeare Theatre and Aldwych Theatre)

1968: The Merry Wives of Windsor 1968: The Latent Heterosexual, Paddy Chayefsky 1969: Bartholomew Fair, Ben Jonson 1969: Pericles, Prince of Tyre 1969: Women Beware Women, Thomas Middleton 1970: Richard III 1971: The Balcony, Jean Genet 1971: The Man of Mode, George Etherege 1971–72: The Merchant of Venice (Also on UK tour) 1972: Murder in the Cathedral, T. S. Eliot 1973: Romeo and Juliet 1973: Cries from Casement as His Bones are Brought to Dublin, David Rudkin 1974: The Actor, (RSC Australian Tour) 1974: The Bewitched, Peter Barnes 1975–76: Henry IV parts 1 and 2

1975–76: Henry V (Also International tour) 1975–76: The Merry Wives of Windor 1977: Old World, Aleksei Arbuzov 1977–78: Henry VI Parts 1,2 and 3 1978: The Changeling, Thomas Middleton and William Rowley 1978–79: Coriolanus (also international tour) 1979: Children of the Sun, Maxim Gorky 1979–80: Twelfth Night 1980–81: As You Like It 1980–81: Richard II 1980–81: Richard III 1981: Troilus and Cressida 1982–83: Arden of Faversham 1982–84: Much Ado About Nothing

RSC at the Barbican Theatres and Royal Shakespeare Theatre

1982: Poppy, Peter Nichols 1983–984: Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand (Also International tour) 1985: Red Noses, Peter Barnes 1985–86: The Winter's Tale 1987: The Balcony, Jean Genet 1987–88: Julius Caesar 1988: Carrie (musical), Stephen King 1988: Scenes from a Marriage, Peter Barnes

1989: Romeo and Juliet 1989–90: Coriolanus, co-directed with John Barton 1989–90: Singer, Peter Flannery (At The Swan, and The Pit) 1990–91: Love's Labour's Lost 1990–91: The Seagull, Anton Chekhov 1993: Tamburlaine the Great, Christopher Marlowe 1995: The Merry Wives of Windsor (at The National Theatre)

Chichester Festival 1995: Hadrian VII, Chichester Festival Theatre 1995: The Visit, Chichester Festival Theatre

Clwyd Theatr Cymru

1997: Equus 1998: A Christmas Carol, Peter Barnes 1998: The Journey of Mary Kelly, Siân Evans 1998: Table Manners 1998: Living Together 1998: Round And Round The Garden 1999: Twelfth Night 1999: Macbeth 2000: Under Milk Wood, Dylan Thomas 2001: King Lear 2001: Bedroom Farce 2001: The Rabbit, Meredydd Barker 2002: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard 2002: Romeo and Juliet 2002: The Four Seasons, Arnold Wesker 2002: Betrayal 2003: Blithe Spirit, Noël Coward 2003: The Crucible, Arthur Miller 2004: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey 2005: Brassed Off 2005: Troilus and Cressida

2005: Brassed Off (Revival) 2005: Night Must Fall 2006: A Chorus of Disapproval 2006: Memory 2007: Arcadia 2007: Memory (Revival in New York) 2007: The Cherry Orchard 2008: Macbeth 2008: Memory (Revival in London and Wales tour) 2009: Noises Off 2009: Mary Stuart (featuring his daughter, Marina Hands as Mary) 2009: Pygmalion 2010: Arden of Faversham 2010: A Small Family Business 2010: Blackthorn 2011: The Taming of the Shrew 2012: As You Like It 2012: Boeing Boeing 2013: The Winslow Boy 2014: Under Milk Wood 2015: Hamlet