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Declan Donnellan
Birth at
4 August 1953
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British theatre director and writer Declan Donnellan was born in Manchester on August 4, 1953. The man, who made a huge contribution to theatrical arts and literature, graduated from St. Benedict School and King's College Cambridge, where he paid special attention to law and the English language. However, Donnellan became known throughout the world in other fields. Declan Donnellan became one of the most popular theater directors. He is especially famous for his performances at the Royal Shakespeare
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British theatre director and writer Declan Donnellan was born in Manchester on August 4, 1953. The man, who made a huge contribution to theatrical arts and literature, graduated from St. Benedict School and King's College Cambridge, where he paid special attention to law and the English language. However, Donnellan became known throughout the world in other fields.
Declan Donnellan became one of the most popular theater directors. He is especially famous for his performances at the Royal Shakespeare and London Royal Theatres. For his unique, full of vivid images and philosophical meaning, paintings, he received a huge number of the most prestigious theatrical awards. Among them are "Crystal Turandot" and "Gold of the Mask".
Declan Donnellan, despite being British, loved working with Russian actors. Together with them, he staged the performances “Winter Tale”, “Boris Godunov”, “Twelfth Night” and “Three Sisters”. The most vivid and memorable production was the ballet Romeo and Juliet, shown at the Bolshoi Theatre. As the director Donnellan himself notes, he is particularly fond of Russian literature, especially the works of A.P. Chekhov. He admired the writer’s passionate love for humanity, which, however, did not sink to sentimentality. In his performances he tried to convey this idea with all philosophical depth.
Declan Donnellan proved himself in the cinema, working with Nick Ormrod on the film “Dear Friend”. The film is an adaptation of the novel of French
writer Guy de Maupassant . At the same time, the director does not abandon the theater, opening in May 2011 the Tenth Chekhov International Theatre Festival with the production of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”. /