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	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Interview: Adrian Noble, artistic director of the RSC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Noble is preparing for the opening of his production of The Secret Garden, the RSC's first West End musical since Les Misérables, a show whose success has effectively cushioned the RSC from financial disaster for the past 15 years.
		Noble may have wiped out the £3.5m deficit he inherited when he took over the company in March 1991, but a Les Mis-style success for The Secret Garden would be very welcome.
		Noble has been its architect and midwife, although curiously he has opted to direct The Secret Garden rather than any of the Shakespeare plays in the cycle.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/story/0,3604,443487,00.html (894 words)

	London Theatre Guide - Online / News / Adrian Noble, to stand down as Artistic Director of The RSC
		It has been announcd today that Adrian Noble, is to stand down as Artistic Director of The RSC from the end of March 2003, after 12 years in the job.
		Noble has been under a lot of pressure with criticism of his new plans of deserting the RSC's London base, at the Barbican and the proposed demolition of The Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon and a creation of a "theatrical village".
		Adrian Noble, Artistic Director and Chief Executive of the Royal Shakespeare Company, announced today (24 April 2002) that he will not be renewing his contract when it expires at the end of March 2003.
	www.londontheatre.co.uk /londontheatre/news/apr02/24thapr02noble.htm (667 words)

	Observer \| What next for the RSC?
		As Adrian Noble announced his departure from the RSC, the critics had a chance to sum up his 11-year reign.
		Adrian Noble's eventual departure from the RSC is in itself no great surprise: what is astonishing is the timing of the announcement.
		Having recently pledged his future to the RSC until 2008, Adrian Noble's resignation as chief executive could be viewed as a surprise.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4403263-102280,00.html (874 words)

	Observer \| Defiant RSC director attacks 'snobbery' and 'insulting' critics
		Adrian Noble, facing a threat of backstage strikes and with grandees resigning from senior posts, has had the worst week of his career.
		Adrian Noble, artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company for the past 10 years, has just faced the worst fortnight of his career.
		Noble's decision to jettison the Barbican meant giving up an annual six-month residency that was supported by the City of London Corporation to the tune of £3.14 million.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4306934-102285,00.html (1079 words)

	BBC News \| ARTS \| RSC stalls on demolition plans
		Noble, embattled after heavy criticism, announced that he was leaving the company last week.
		In October, Noble said the plans for the new "village" came at the conclusion of a feasibility study, and were being submitted to the Arts Council.
		In October 2001, Mr Noble said the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, built in 1932, was "unwelcoming" and should be demolished and replaced with a new 1,050-seat venue.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_1957000/1957662.stm (440 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| 'Vile. Hateful. A horrible time' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Adrian Noble describes his disastrous last year as artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2002-3 thus: "Vile.
		Noble won't be larding the stage with the usual Masonic symbols - "They just don't mean anything to me" - and his interpretation promises to be lucidly simple and accessible.
		Although Noble's Shakespearean analogies betray his background, he is attempting to construct his production as much through the implications of the score as through the text.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/05/11/btnoble11.xml&sSheet=/arts/2004/05/11/ixartleft.html (1154 words)

	Adrian IV on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Adrian, forced by imperial intrigues to leave Rome, died before he could pronounce sentence.
		The historicity of Adrian's donation of Ireland, as a papal fief, to Henry II of England is the subject of scholarly dispute.
		Leaving this Noble legacy to build on: RSC Special; Arts Editor Terry Grimley examines what happens next for the Royal Shakespeare Company after Adrian Noble announced he was standing down as artistic director.(News)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/a/adrian4.asp (497 words)

	Chekhov Seagull Times review
		I could count on maybe 200 hands the times I have longed to jump onstage and apply matches or even blazing faggots to the bottoms of performers who were idling through their roles.
		Indeed, one of the ways Noble shows his confidence is by emphatically reintroducing the scene-setting sounds — offstage song, birds, high wind — his colleagues would have rejected as old-fashioned.
		Noble is able to fill any silences in Peter Gill's brisk new translation with emotional eloquence, and his cast are generous with telling detail.
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		Adrian Noble did a Julie-Andrews in a Guardian interview about it: "It is outrageous and unjust and in no way reflects the artistic achievements of the RSC in the year 2000.
		RSC Artistic Director Adrian Noble said: " This will be an amazing opportunity for audiences to see English history unfolding before their eyes and the chance to follow the political and private lives of characters played by the same actors throughout more than one play.
		Noble is preparing for the opening of his production of The Secret Garden, the RSC's first West End musical since Les Miserables, a show whose success has effectively cushioned the RSC from financial disaster for the past 15 years.
	www.1501broadway.com /library/0301.txt (10795 words)

	BECTU News - RSC parting is such sweet sorrow
		Noble, the company's artistic director, has announced his resignation from the RSC to pursue commercial theatre projects, leaving behind two controversial reorganisations which he pushed through.
		BECTU is demanding a review of the recent policy changes at the Royal Shakespeare Company in the wake of artistic director Adrian Noble's resignation.
		Assistant General Secretary Gerry Morrissey commented: "Adrian Noble has done a massive amount of damage to the RSC product in his 10 years as artistic director.
	www.bectu.org.uk /news/ae/na0074.html (243 words)

	Theater News - Theater News: A Noble Departure - Adrian Noble, artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, ...
		Adrian Noble, artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, announces that he will leave his post in 2003.
		The day after the Bard celebrated his 438th birthday, word has come out of Stratford-upon-Avon that the Royal Shakespeare Company will be making a big change next spring: Adrian Noble, artistic director and chief executive of the RSC for more than ten years, will not be renewing his contract after its expiration in March 2003.
		Noble has been with the RSC as a director for over 20 years and has built an impressive reputation with his productions of such classics as King Lear and Hamlet.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm?int_news_id=2109 (390 words)

	The Big Interview: Adrian Noble \| London Theatre Guide
		Noble is clearly quite obsessed with the dramatic power of this character who is prepared to subjugate every aspect of his personal happiness to his moral calling, and he [Noble] gets uncharacteristically frothy when asked to compare with Shakespeare’s most notorious tortured souls: “Oh it’s right up there!
		Noble admits that he loves Ibsen almost as much as he does Shakespeare and it is clear throughout that his commitment to Brand is as much personal as it is professional.
		In addition to his passion for Ibsen, Noble has an extra reason to try and make Brand as perfect as possible: his ideas for the show have been gestating and evolving throughout his two decades at the RSC, making the ideal piece with which to bring down the curtain on his time with the company.
	www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk /news/biginterview/display?contentId=73845 (1215 words)

	BBC News \| ARTS \| RSC chief to quit
		Noble, who has been in his post for more than a decade and is also chief executive, has suffered criticism recently.
		Noble, who is currently directing the West End hit Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, will leave the RSC in March next year when his contract expires.
		Noble said: "It has been an enormous privilege for me to lead this wonderful organisation since 1991.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_1948000/1948598.stm (473 words)

	London theatre tickets and guide Woman Of No Importance on stage in London's West End Haymarket Theatre - ticket buying ...
		But Adrian Noble grasps the genius of the writing so adroitly that the piece reveals itself in its true form, as a scintillating drama of ideas...
		It's a display of wit and a sentimental melodrama — Wilde's attempt to ingratiate himself with conventional audiences and at some level a plea for the tolerance he himself was soon to be so sensationally denied.
		But in Adrian Noble's starry revival of A Woman of No Importance she succeeds - at times - in wiping the superior smirk off your face...
	www.albemarle-london.com /womanofnoimportance.html (531 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Adrian Noble to leave RSC
		Adrian Noble, artistic director and chief executive of the Royal Shakespeare Company, announced today that he will not be renewing his contract when it expires at the end of March 2003.
		Mr Noble has weathered considerable criticism over his controversial plans to restructure the RSC and the building of a theatre village in Stratford, and despite stating his intention to stay put, today's announcement had been widely anticipated.
		Noble will remain fully engaged at the RSC in the year leading up to his departure.
	www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,689801,00.html (499 words)

	Chekhov Seagull Independent review
		The ensemble work in Noble's production is very fine, but I have to say I would have made an invidious beeline for Penelope Wilton.
		In this latter role, Waddell expertly highlights the comedy of this girl's humourless fan worship in the earlier part of the play and the almost trance-like willed stoicism of the broken young woman at the end.
		Noble cuts to the heart of the play and finds a ubiquitous sense of personal isolation which is at once absurd and deeply painful.
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /town/parade/abj76/PG/works/reviews/seagull_00/independent.shtml (470 words)

	RSC - The Family Reunion
		Adrian Noble's taut, brooding production is the most gripping account of T S Eliot's play I have seen, its poetry and its psychological probing darkly illuminating one another.
		Adrian Noble's fine direction groups the four of them in lines or squares, and these scenes work well, with Bridget Jones enjoyably waspish, and neat studies of uneasy or arthritic bachelors from Christopher Good and Nicholas Jones.
		Add the vivid characterisation Noble draws from the Chorus of aunts and uncles, Bayswater spinsters and men-about-clubland, and the result is an evening rich in almost everything one asks from drama.
	members.aol.com /actorsite2/gh/reunion.htm (3634 words)

	Henry V (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The result, in Adrian Noble's restrained production, is an overall portrayal in which verse and action are welded, though his voice is not yet attuned to a large auditorium.
		But there are moments that will stay in the mind: the combination of extreme fatigue with the discovery that the English boys guarding the baggage at Agincout have been butchered by the retreating French, and the death of a loyal relative on the field that almost undoes him.
		"Adrian Noble has taken a step away from the crowing victory of Henry V over the French at Agincourt and tilted unusually to the play's spiritual dimensions, to King Henry's adamant belife that victory was not his but God's.
	www.ocf.berkeley.edu /~jyking/st-h5.htm (925 words)

	New Statesman: Alone he did it: Adrian Noble's reputation for unilateralism has been his professional tragedy. But, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The wording of his press release last year, announcing plans to "redevelop" the Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, to withdraw from the Barbican, to close the Other Place, to extend the Royal Shakespeare Company's activities in the US and so on, suggested that these radical decisions were his and his alone.
		Noble himself seems to have had doubts about his rhetoric here, for he immediately offered reassurance: "But do not worry, throughout all this work we will still be open for business in Stratford." Thanks for that, Adrian!
		Noble's letter accompanying the winter season at Stratford also implied that he himself would be around be around to see all these lovely projects through to their completion "by" 2008.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4587_131/ai_86231522 (1131 words)

	Cast and Creative
		Adrian Noble was educated at the Chichester High school and the University of Bristol.
		In 1989 Adrian left the RSC to pursue an independent career and directed The Art of Success at the Manhatten Theatre Club and Chekhov's Three Sisters at the Gate Theatre, Dublin and The Royal Court Theatre.
		Adrian has directed Don Giovanni for Kent Opera; The Duchess of Malfi in a circus tent in Paris; The Faerie Queen at the Aix-en-Provence Festival (Grand Prix des Critiques); Il Ritorno d'Ulysse also at the Aix-en Provence Festival (Grand Prix des Critiques) and a Japanese production of Twelfth Night.
	www.chittythemusical.co.uk /show/creative/adriannoble.htm (369 words)

	British Shakespeare Association - News
		The Guardian leads with a main story 'Exit Noble after a season of discontent' and an editorial from Michael Billington, one of the most outspoken critics of Noble's plans for the RSC.
		Noble explains his painful decision to quit, whilst the Beeb offers its own predictions for the future.
		The Independent claims that Noble has been dismayed by attacks on his family The story is also covered by Theatre News (follow link on its main page).
	www.uclan.ac.uk /facs/class/cultstud/bsa/website/news0402.htm (1501 words)

	London theatre tickets and guide Brand starring Ralph Fiennes on stage in London's West End Haymarket Theatre - ticket ...
		"...[Adrian Noble's] swansong production of Ibsen's Brand is a glorious occasion: daring, deeply felt, powerfully affecting and blessed with a truly tremendous performance from Ralph Fiennes in the title role that those who see it will never forget...
		Noble stages the production on an almost bare stage, making no pictorial attempt to suggest the mountains and fjords and the impoverished village where the action is set.
		Adrian Noble has trimmed Michael Meyer's eloquent translation, but Brand still takes nearly three hours.
	www.albemarle-london.com /rsc-brand.html (916 words)

	Playbill Features: PBOL'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, April 20-26: Noble Gesture
		Noble's recent ideas for overhauling the RSC, which he has run since 1991, have put the artistic soul of the nation of the rack for the past year.
		Noble's trouble began in 1998, when he revealed a hugely ambitious plan for RSC's future, in which the company's primary theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon would be demolished and the 1,500-seat auditorium replaced with a more intimate space surrounded by what was described as a "Shakespearean theatre village" built by Dutch architect Erick Van Egeraat.
		Noble, for his part, fought on, attacking his critics in the pages of The Independent, arguing that his company needed to adapt and have options.
	www.playbill.com /features/article/76156.html (1119 words)

	BBC - Coventry and Warwickshire News - RSC Future Without Noble
		Campaigners against the demolition of Stratford's Royal Shakespeare Theatre believe the resignation of Adrian Noble could be the building's salvation.
		James Philpott from Hoot, said the decision by Adrian Noble to leave the RSC after 22 years, could see the building saved.
		How Adrian Noble's departure will affect the plans is uncertain, especially as he will not be leaving until the end of his contract in March 2003.
	www.bbc.co.uk /coventry/news/stories/2002/04/25/rsc-future-without-noble.shtml (342 words)

	BBC - Coventry and Warwickshire Stage - RSC New Season Review
		Adrian Noble has decided to try and widen the RSC audience.
		This is all part of Adrian Noble's vision for the company, as he said:
		This is great news, considering the bad response Adrian Noble has had to the new shorter contracts for actors at the RSC.
	www.bbc.co.uk /coventry/stage/stories/2002/04/rsc-new-season-review.shtml (356 words)

	British Shakespeare Association - News
		Michael Boyd is a good choice to succeed Adrian Noble as artistic director of the RSC.
		As Michael Boyd is announced as the new artistic director for the Royal Shakespeare Company, taking over from Adrian Noble in March 2003, BBC News Online charts the recent turbulent history of the prestigious company.
		As the RSC confirms its secret short list of candidates for the role of artistic director - a job once seen as the most prestigious theatrical appointment in Britain, or even the world - the long succession of 'sorrows' and misfortunes that have dogged the company over the past 12 months are plain to see.
	www.uclan.ac.uk /facs/class/cultstud/bsa/website/news0702.htm (1091 words)

	Printer Friendly Version - That fine four- fendered musical! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Noble says he had two big worries: Could they surpass the movie "in terms of its structure, its interest, its joy," and second, could they make the car fly "even more magically" than onscreen.
		"Adrian talks about Act I being a lot of solos and duets and bravura moments, and Act II as a big choral story where the whole company comes together.
		Adrian Hall, who played Jemima's brother, Jeremy, is head of production at the Guildford School of Acting in England.
	www.nydailynews.com /entertainment/v-pfriendly/story/297954p-255091c.html (1413 words)

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