M < > Aidan McArdle Macbeth Richard McCabe Colin McCormack Alec McCowen Ian McDiarmid Martin McDonagh Malcolm McDowell John McEnery Peter McEnery Tom McGrath Frank McGuinness Jo McInnes Ian McKellen Peter McKintosh Hilton McRae Anna Madeley Madness in Valencia Dominic Mafham The Maid's Tragedy Major Barbara The Malcontent Michael Maloney Malvern Festival Man and Superman Man is Man Tom Mannion The Man of Mode The Man Who Came to Dinner Lesley Manville Marat/Sade Tony Marchant Claire Marchionne Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux Christopher Marlowe The Marquis of Keith The Marrying of Ann Leete John Marston Trevor Martin Ashley Martin-Davis Mary, After the Queen Mary and Lizzie Brewster Mason Daniel Massey Philip Massinger The Master Builder Maydays Measure for Measure Nancy Meckler Joe Melia Leonie Mellinger Melons Sam Mendes Men's Beano Mephisto David Mercer The Merchant of Venice The Mermaid The Merry Wives of Windsor The Meteor Roger Michell Thomas Middleton Midnight's Children A Midsummer Night's Dream Midwinter Arthur Miller Jonathan Miller Poppy Miller Joseph Millson Helen Mirren Misalliance A Miserable and Lonely Death Les Misérables Misha's Party Miss Julie The Mistake Katie Mitchell Tim Mitchell Ariane Mnouchkine Moby Dick Molière Molière (The Cabal of Saintly Hypocrites) Money A Month in the Country Richard Moore Hattie Morahan Christopher Morley Cherry Morris Clive Morris David Morrissey Moscow Gold Mother Courage The Mouth Organ Slawomir Mrozek Much Ado About Nothing Peter Mumford Murder in the Cathedral Gerard Murphy The Mysteries		Katie Mitchell For a time, during the 1990s, it looked as if the future of the RSC would rest on the shoulders of Katie Mitchell. She went from one heavyweight text to another, surveying each with the precise, fearless eye of a surgeon. Shakespeare, Ibsen, Strindberg, Greek tragedy, the Mysteries, Samuel Beckett. Katie Mitchell is unlikely to direct a light comedy. She likes sombre colours (particularly grey and brown), half-light, religious imagery, East European folk music and dance. She can create powerful images but she is most interested in the way people think and interact. She prefers studio theatres, intimate spaces, the theatrical equivalents of X-ray machines. She joined the RSC in 1988 as an assistant director. She assisted Adrian Noble on The Master Builder (1989) and was given her first production in 1991. At The Other Place and Pit she directed Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed With Kindness (1991), Ibsen's Ghosts (1992), Strindberg's Easter (1995), and The Mysteries (1997), bringing to each her clinical eye but also, paradoxically, passion. Jane Lapotaire, Simon Russell Beale, Joanne Pearce and Lucy Whybrow are among the actors who have given intense performances under her guidance. Since the late 1990s Katie Mitchell has worked most prominently at the National: Rutherford and Son (Cottesloe, 1994); The Machine Wreckers (Cottesloe, 1995); Ted Hughes's version of The Oresteia (Cottesloe, 1999); Chekhov's Ivanov (Cottesloe, 2002), Three Sisters (Lyttelton, 2003) and The Seagull (Lyttelton, 2006); Euripides's Iphigenia at Aulis (Lyttelton, 2004) and Women of Troy (Lyttelton, 2007); Caryl Churchill's version of Strindberg's A Dream Play (Cottesloe, 2005); and an adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Waves (Cottesloe, 2006-07). Opera productions include Don Giovanni at Welsh National Opera (1996).	(Katrina Jane Mitchell) Director, b. Reading, 1964 Education: Magdalen College, Oxford RSC: Joined 1988; Assistant Director, 1988-89; Director of The Other Place, 1996-98; Associate Director, 1996-98; Honorary Associate Artist (since 2003) Productions: Stars in the Morning Sky, Alexander Galin (Almeida, 1989); A Woman Killed With Kindness, Thomas Heywood (TOP, 1991/Pit, 1992); The Dybbuk, Solomon Ansky (Pit, 1992); Ghosts, Henrik Ibsen (TOP, 1993/Pit, 1994); Henry VI (TOP, 1994/International Tour, 1994); Easter, August Strindberg (Pit, 1995); The Phoenician Women, Euripides (TOP, 1995/Pit, 1996); The Mysteries (TOP, 1997/Pit, 1998); Beckett Shorts (TOP, 1997/European Tour, 1997); Uncle Vanya, Anton Chekhov (Young Vic, 1998)
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