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((short description|English theatre, opera and film director (1930–2017)))
((about|the director|other people with the same name|Peter Hall (disambiguation)))
((Use British English|date=September 2021))
((Use dmy dates|date=August 2022))
((Infobox person
| name               = Sir Peter Hall
| honorific_suffix   = [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire|CBE]]
| image              = Peter Hall (director).jpg
| caption            = Hall at the [[South Bank Sky Arts Awards]], 2011
| birth_name         = Peter Reginald Frederick Hall
| birth_date         = ((birth date|1930|11|22|df=y))
| birth_place        = [[Bury St Edmunds]], [[West Suffolk (county)|West Suffolk]], England
| death_date         = ((Death date and age|2017|9|11|1930|11|22|df=y))
| death_place        = [[London]], England
| occupation         = ((hlist|Film director|theatre director|opera director))
| years_active       = 1953–2011
| spouse             = ((plainlist|
* ((marriage|[[Leslie Caron]]|1956|1965|end=divorced))
* ((marriage|Jacqueline Taylor|1965|1981|end=divorced))
* ((marriage|[[Maria Ewing]]|1982|1990|end=divorced))
* ((marriage|Nicki Frei<br>|1990))
))
| children           = 6, including [[Christopher Hall (producer)|Christopher]], [[Jennifer Caron Hall|Jennifer]], [[Edward Hall (director)|Edward]] and [[Rebecca Hall|Rebecca]] <!-- notable people only -->
))

'''Sir Peter Reginald Frederick Hall''' [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] (22 November 1930 ((ndash)) 11 September 2017) was an English theatre, opera and film director. His obituary in ''[[The Times]]'' declared him "the most important figure in British theatre for half a century" and on his death, a [[Royal National Theatre]] statement declared that Hall's "influence on the artistic life of Britain in the 20th century was unparalleled". In 2018, the [[Laurence Olivier Awards]], recognising achievements in London theatre, changed the award for Best Director to the [[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director|Sir Peter Hall Award for Best Director]].

In 1955, Hall introduced London audiences to the work of [[Samuel Beckett]] with the UK premiere of ''[[Waiting for Godot]]''. Hall founded the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]] (1960–68) and went on to build an international reputation in theatre, opera, film and television. He was director of the [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] (1973–88) and artistic director of [[Glyndebourne Festival Opera]] (1984((ndash))1990). He formed the Peter Hall Company (1998((ndash))2011) and became founding director of the [[Rose Theatre Kingston]] in 2003. Throughout his career, he was a tenacious champion of public funding for the arts.<ref>((cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29467703 |title=Sir Peter Hall: A giant of British theatre |publisher=BBC News |date=12 September 2017 |access-date=12 September 2017))</ref><ref>((cite news |first=Horatia |last=Harrod |title=Interview: Sir Peter Hall |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8673017/Interview-Sir-Peter-Hall.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8673017/Interview-Sir-Peter-Hall.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work= The Telegraph |date= 30 July 2011 ))((cbignore))</ref>

== Early life and career ==
Peter Reginald Frederick Hall was born in [[Bury St Edmunds]], [[Suffolk]], the only son of Grace Florence (née Pamment) and Reginald Edward Arthur Hall. His father was a stationmaster and the family lived for some time at [[Shelford railway station]].<ref name=Fay1995>((cite book|last=Fay|first=Stephen|title=Power Play: The Life and Times of Peter Hall|page=25|location=London|publisher =[[Hodder and Stoughton]]|year=1995))</ref><ref name=oco>((cite book |title=Current Biography Yearbook (volume 23) |publisher=H. W. Wilson |year=1963 |pages=179))</ref> He won a scholarship to [[The Perse School]] in [[Cambridge]].<ref name=Hall1993>((cite book|last=Hall|first=Peter|title=Making an Exhibition of Myself: the autobiography of Peter Hall |pages=36 |location=London |publisher=[[Sinclair-Stevenson]] |year=1993))</ref> Before taking up a further scholarship to read English at [[St Catharine's College, Cambridge|St. Catharine's College]], [[Cambridge]], Hall did his [[National Service]] in Germany at the RAF Headquarters for Education in [[Bückeburg]]. Whilst studying at Cambridge he produced and acted in a number of plays, directing five in his final year and a further three for The Marlowe Society Summer Festival.<ref name= "Addenbroke 1974">((cite book|last=Addenbroke|first=David|title=The Royal Shakespeare Company|pages=27|location=London|publisher=William Kimber & Co|year=1974))</ref> He served on the University Amateur Dramatic Club (ADC) committee before graduating in 1953. In the same year, Hall staged his first professional play, ''The Letter'' by [[W. Somerset Maugham]], at The Theatre Royal Windsor. In 1954 and 1955, Hall was the director of the [[Oxford Playhouse]] where he directed several later prominent young actors including [[Ronnie Barker]] and [[Billie Whitelaw]]. [[Eileen Atkins]] and [[Maggie Smith]] were also part of the company as acting Assistants Stage Managers.<ref name="Telegraphobituary">((cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2017/09/12/sir-peter-hall-obituary/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2017/09/12/sir-peter-hall-obituary/ |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Sir Peter Hall|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|date=12 September 2017|access-date=12 September 2017))((cbignore)) ((subscription required))</ref>

From 1955 to 1957, Hall ran the [[Arts Theatre]] in London where he directed the English-language premiere of ''[[Waiting for Godot]]'' in 1955.<ref name="Billington">((cite news | first = Michael | last = Billington | title =  Sir Peter Hall obituary: powerful force in British theatre / Creator of the Royal Shakespeare Company who built up the National and championed regional playhouses | work = The Guardian| date=12 September 2017 | url = https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/sep/12/peter-hall-obituary-british-theatre-rss-national | access-date = 14 September 2017))</ref><ref name="Lawson">((cite news|last=Lawson|first=Mark|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/sep/12/peter-hall-british-theatre-dies-aged-86-royal-shakespeare-company|title=Peter Hall: the peerless showman who transformed British theatre|work=The Guardian|date=12 September 2017|access-date=4 October 2017))</ref> The production's success transformed his career overnight and attracted the attention, among others, of [[Tennessee Williams]], for whom he would direct the London premieres of ''[[Camino Real (play)|Camino Real]]'' (1957)<ref>((cite book|last=Kolin|first=Philip C.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-dLEDZFQNCEC&pg=PA104|title=Tennessee Williams: A Guide to Research and Performance|page=104|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=1998|isbn=9780313303067))</ref> and ''[[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof]]'' (1958),<ref>((cite book |title=Theatre World Annual (London) |volume=9 |editor-first=Frances |editor-last=Stephens |year=1958 |publisher=Macmillan))</ref>((page needed|date=September 2017)) and [[Harold Pinter]].<ref name="BBC Sir Peter Hall Remembered">((cite AV media |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0969gs1 |title=Sir Peter Hall Remembered |medium=Television production |publisher=BBC |date=9 September 2017 |access-date=19 September 2017))</ref> Other productions at The Arts included the English language premiere of ''[[The Waltz of the Toreadors]]'' by [[Jean Anouilh]].<ref name="Playbill">((cite web |url=http://www.playbill.com/article/playbill-vaults-today-in-theatre-history-february-24-com-104116 |title=Playbill Vault's Today in Theatre History: February 24 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=24 February 2017 |website=Playbill |access-date=19 September 2017))</ref>

== Royal Shakespeare Company ==
Hall made his debut at the [[Royal Shakespeare Theatre|Shakespeare Memorial Theatre]] in [[Stratford-upon-Avon]] in 1956 with ''[[Love's Labour's Lost]]'': his productions there in the 1957((ndash))1959 seasons included ''[[Cymbeline]]'' with [[Peggy Ashcroft]] as Imogen, ''[[Coriolanus]]'' with [[Laurence Olivier]] and ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' with [[Charles Laughton]]. In 1960, aged 29, Hall succeeded [[Glen Byam Shaw]] as director of the theatre, expanded operations to be all-year, and founded the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]] (RSC)<ref name="Lawson"/> to realise his vision of a resident ensemble of actors, directors and designers producing both modern and classic texts, with a distinctive house style.<ref name="Telegraphobituary"/> The company not only played in Stratford but expanded into the [[Aldwych Theatre]], its first London home.

Hall's many productions for the RSC included ''[[Hamlet]]'' (1965, with [[David Warner (actor)|David Warner]]), ''The Government Inspector'' (1966, with [[Paul Scofield]]), the world premiere of Harold Pinter's ''[[The Homecoming]]'' (1965) and ''[[The Wars of the Roses (adaptation)|The Wars of the Roses]]'' (1963) adapted with [[John Barton (director)|John Barton]] from Shakespeare's history plays. The latter was described as "the greatest Shakespearian event in living memory which also laid down the doctrine of Shakespearian relevance to the modern world".<ref>((cite news|first=Irving|last=Wardle|title=Profile of Peter Hall|work=The Independent on Sunday|date=6 January 1991))</ref> Hall left the RSC in 1968 after almost ten years as its director.

==At the National Theatre==
((more citations needed section|date=September 2017))<!--middle paragraph needs citations which verify all of the productions noted.  One source would suffice if it clearly verifies the entire bibliography-->
Hall was appointed director of the [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] (NT) in 1973 and led the organisation for fifteen years until 1988. He supervised the move from the [[The Old Vic|Old Vic]] to the new purpose-built complex on London's [[South Bank]] "in the face of wide-spread scepticism and violent union unrest, turning a potential catastrophe into the great success story it remains today."<ref>((cite news|last=Spencer|first=Charles|title=A Titan who Transformed Theatre|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|date=31 October 2005|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/3647585/A-titan-who-transformed-theatre.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/3647585/A-titan-who-transformed-theatre.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=12 September 2017))((cbignore))</ref> Frustrated by construction delays, Hall decided to move the company into the still-unfinished building and to open it theatre by theatre as each neared completion. Extracts from his production of ''[[Tamburlaine|Tamburlaine the Great]]'' with [[Albert Finney]] were performed out on the terraces, free to passers-by.<ref name=Rosenthal2013>((cite book|last=Rosenthal|first=Daniel|title=The National Theatre Story|page=251|location=London|publisher=[[Oberon Books]]|year=2013))</ref>

Hall directed thirty-three productions for the NT including the world premieres of Harold Pinter's ''[[No Man's Land (play)|No Man's Land]]'' (1975, with [[John Gielgud]] and [[Ralph Richardson]]) and ''[[Betrayal (play)|Betrayal]]'' (1978), [[Peter Shaffer]]'s ''[[Amadeus (play)|Amadeus]]'' (1979, with [[Paul Scofield]] and [[Simon Callow]]), and the London and Broadway premieres of [[Alan Ayckbourn]]'s ''[[Bedroom Farce (play)|Bedroom Farce]]''. Other landmark productions included ''[[Oresteia|The Oresteia]]'' (in a version by [[Tony Harrison]] with music by [[Harrison Birtwistle]], 1981) which became the first Greek play to be performed by a foreign company at the ancient theatre of [[Epidaurus]], ''[[Animal Farm]]'' (in his own adaptation, 1984) and ''[[Antony and Cleopatra]]'' with [[Judi Dench]] and [[Anthony Hopkins]] (1987).

Hall returned to the NT for the last time in 2011 with a production of ''[[Twelfth Night]]'' mounted by the company to celebrate his eightieth birthday. His daughter, [[Rebecca Hall]], played [[Viola]] alongside Simon Callow as Sir Toby Belch in the Cottesloe Theatre.

== Later theatre career ==
Upon leaving the NT in 1988, Hall launched his own commercial company with productions in the [[West End theatre|West End]] and on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] of Tennessee Williams' ''[[Orpheus Descending]]'' (with [[Vanessa Redgrave]]) and ''The Merchant of Venice'' (with [[Dustin Hoffman]]). The Peter Hall Company went on to stage more than sixty plays in association with a number of producing partners including [[Bill Kenwright]] and [[Thelma Holt]]. In addition to an ensemble repertory season at the [[The Old Vic|Old Vic]] (1997), the company enjoyed a long collaboration with the [[Theatre Royal, Bath]] where a series of summer festivals were staged from 2003((ndash))2011: many productions were subsequently performed on domestic and international tours and in the West End. The plays produced included [[Oscar Wilde]]'s ''[[An Ideal Husband]]'' (1992), [[Pam Gems]]' ''[[Piaf (play)|Piaf]]'' (with [[Elaine Paige]], 1993), ''Hamlet'' (with [[Stephen Dillane]], 1994), [[Henrik Ibsen]]'s ''[[The Master Builder]]'' (with [[Alan Bates]], 1995), ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' (with [[Jessica Lange]], 1996), [[Julian Barry]]'s ''Lenny'' (with [[Eddie Izzard]], 1999), ''[[As You Like It]]'' (with [[Rebecca Hall]] and [[Dan Stevens]], 2003), [[Brian Clark (writer)|Brian Clark]]'s ''[[Whose Life Is It Anyway? (play)|Whose Life is it Anyway?]]'' (with [[Kim Cattrall]], 2005), the fiftieth anniversary production of ''Waiting for Godot'',<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/aug/24/theatre.beckettat100|title=Godot almighty|author=Peter Hall|date=24 August 2005|website=The Guardian|access-date=26 May 2018))</ref> [[Noël Coward|Coward]]'s ''[[Hay Fever (play)|Hay Fever]]'' (with [[Judi Dench]], 2006) and [[George Bernard Shaw|Shaw]]'s ''[[Pygmalion (play)|Pygmalion]]'' (with [[Tim Pigott-Smith]] and [[Michelle Dockery]], 2007). Hall's final productions for his company were ''[[Henry IV, Part 1]]'' and ''[[Henry IV, Part 2|Part 2]]'' (2011), staged at the Theatre Royal Bath.<ref>((cite news|first=Michael |last=Billington|title=Henry IV Parts One and Two – review|work=The Guardian|date=28 July 2011|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2011/jul/28/henry-iv-parts-one-and-two-review|access-date=12 September 2017))</ref>

Hall directed extensively in the United States including the world premiere of [[John Guare]]'s ''Four Baboons Adoring the Sun'' ([[Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts|Lincoln Center]], 1992), three Shakespeare plays with Center Theater Group, Los Angeles (1999 and 2001) and [[John Barton (director)|John Barton]]'s nine-hour epic ''Tantalus'' (2000), an RSC co-production with the [[Denver Center for the Performing Arts]].<ref>((cite journal|last1=Jones|first1=Kenneth|title=Documentary on Peter Hall and John Barton's Tantalus|journal=[[Playbill]]|date=30 December 2001|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/documentary-on-peter-hall-and-john-bartons-tantalus-airs-dec-30-on-pbs-com-100542|access-date=18 June 2017))</ref>

In 2003, Hall became the founding director of The Rose Theatre ((ndash)) a new venue to be constructed in Kingston upon Thames whose design was inspired by the Elizabethan original. He directed a number of productions there including Chekhov's ''Uncle Vanya'', which opened the building in 2008, and ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' (with Judi Dench as Titania, 2010). Hall was also appointed "Director [[Emeritus]]" of The Rose Kingston.<ref name="Billington"/>

== Opera ==
Peter Hall was also an internationally celebrated opera director. His first experience was in 1957, directing ''The Moon and Sixpence'' by [[John Gardner (composer)|John Gardner]] at [[Sadler's Wells Theatre|Sadler's Wells]].<ref name="operamag">Christiansen, Rupert. Peter Hall, 1930-2017. ''[[Opera (British magazine)|Opera]]'', Vol.68 No.11, November 2017, p1428-32.</ref> He was able to play the piano well enough to read opera scores.<ref name="operamag"/> His first major project was Schoenberg's ''[[Moses und Aron]]'' at Covent Garden, which led on to further productions at that house.<ref name="operamag"/>
Hall worked at many of the world's leading houses as well as [[Royal Opera House]], including the [[Metropolitan Opera]] in New York, [[Houston Grand Opera]],<ref name="Bayreuth" /> [[Los Angeles Opera]], [[Lyric Opera of Chicago]] and the [[Bayreuth Festival]] where he, with conductor Georg Solti, directed Wagner's Ring Cycle (''[[Der Ring des Nibelungen]]'') in 1983 to honour the centenary of the composer's death.<ref name="Stephen Fay and Roger Wood1984">((cite book|first1=Stephen|last1=Fay|first2=Roger|last2=Wood|title=The Ring: Anatomy of an Opera|location=London|publisher=Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd|year=1984))</ref> The production was played until 1986.<ref name="Bayreuth">((cite web | url = http://auffuehrungsdatenbank.bayreuther-festspiele.de/fsdb_en/personen/9231/index.htm | title = Peter Hall | publisher = [[Bayreuth Festival]] | language = de | access-date = 12 September 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170912192017/http://auffuehrungsdatenbank.bayreuther-festspiele.de/fsdb_en/personen/9231/index.htm | archive-date = 12 September 2017 | url-status = dead ))</ref> Hall staged the world premieres of Michael Tippett's ''[[The Knot Garden]]'' (1970) and ''[[New Year (opera)|New Year]]'' (1989). He had a close relationship with the [[Glyndebourne Festival]] where he was artistic director from 1984 to 1990, directing more than twenty productions including the Mozart/Da Ponte operas. His production of Benjamin Britten's ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream (opera)|A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' (1981) was revived nine times, most recently 35 years after its premiere, in August 2016.<ref>((cite news|title=A Midsummer Night's Dream, Glyndebourne|last1=Coghlan|first1=Alexandra|url=http://www.theartsdesk.com/opera/midsummer-nights-dream-glyndebourne|work=The Arts Desk|date=12 August 2016))</ref> Hall also directed ''[[Albert Herring]]'' by Benjamin Britten, Cavalli's ''[[La Calisto]]'', Monteverdi's ''[[Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria]]'' and Gluck's ''[[Orfeo ed Euridice]]'' (all with [[Janet Baker]]); ''[[L'incoronazione di Poppea]]'' and ''[[Carmen]]'' – both with his then wife, [[Maria Ewing]], with whom he also staged a celebrated ''[[Salome (opera)|Salome]]'' (The Royal Opera London and L.A. Opera) in 1986.<ref>((cite news|title=Peter Hall: the Hallmark of operatic excellence|last1=Christiansen|first1=Rupert|work=The Telegraph|date=25 July 2016|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opera/what-to-see/peter-hall-the-hallmark-of-operatic-excellence/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opera/what-to-see/peter-hall-the-hallmark-of-operatic-excellence/ |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=12 September 2017))((cbignore))</ref> ''Opera magazine'' noted Hall's characteristics as (in relation to ''[[La Cenerentola]]'' at Glyndebourne) "dignity and emotional veracity", recalling that "he would always insist that 'the singers, like actors, played off each other'".<ref name="operamag"/>

== Film and TV ==

Hall's films for cinema and TV include ''[[Akenfield]]'' (1974), a fictionalisation based on [[Ronald Blythe]]'s oral history and filmed in Blythe's native Suffolk with a cast of local people. It was restored and relaunched in 2016 by the BFI. Hall's film ''[[She's Been Away]]'' was written by [[Stephen Poliakoff]] and starred [[Peggy Ashcroft]] and [[Geraldine James]] who both won awards for their performances at the [[Venice Film Festival]]. Hall also directed ''[[The Camomile Lawn (TV serial)|The Camomile Lawn]]'' and ''The Final Passage'' for [[Channel 4]] television, as well as a number of his opera and stage productions. His only American studio movie, the 1995 erotic thriller ''[[Never Talk to Strangers]]'', "proved to me that I have no aptitude whatever for surviving the Hollywood rat race," as Hall wrote in the updated edition of his memoir ''Making an Exhibition of Myself''.<ref>((cite book|title=Making an Exhibition of Myself|first=Peter|last=Hall|year=2000|publisher=Oberon Books|ISBN=184943686X))</ref> For several years during the 1970s he presented the arts programme ''[[Aquarius (UK TV series)|Aquarius]]'' for London Weekend Television. In 2005 he was the subject of a two-hour documentary for ''[[The South Bank Show]]'', ''Peter Hall, Fifty Years in Theatre''.

== Acting ==
Hall began acting as a student at Cambridge University, where [[Dadie Rylands]] taught him to speak Shakespearean verse.<ref name="Billington" /> He was also influenced in his understanding of Shakespeare by the literary critic and teacher [[F. R. Leavis]].<ref>((cite book | last = Storer | first = Richard | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=4rN_AgAAQBAJ&pg=PT160 | title = F.R. Leavis | publisher = Routledge | year = 2009 | isbn = 9781134220250 | page = 160))</ref> He subsequently acted in three German films in the 1970s: ''[[The Pedestrian (film)|Der Fußgänger]]'' (''The Pedestrian'', directed by [[Maximilian Schell]], 1973),<ref>((cite web | url = https://mubi.com/de/films/the-pedestrian | title = Der Fußgänger / Regie Maximilian Schell / Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1973 | publisher = Deutsches Filmhaus | language = de | access-date = 15 September 2017))</ref> ''[[When Mother Went on Strike|Als Mutter streikte]]'' (''When Mother Went on Strike'', 1974)<ref>((cite web | url = http://programm.ard.de/TV/Programm/Alle-Sender/?sendung=282315829375769 | title = Als Mutter streikte Spielfilm Deutschland 1973 / SWR Fernsehen RP | publisher = ARD | language = de | access-date = 15 September 2017))</ref> and ''[[The Last Word (1975 film)|Der letzte Schrei]]'' (''The Last Word'', 1974).<ref>((cite web | url = http://www.deutsches-filmhaus.de/filme_einzeln/a_einzeln/ackeren_robert/letzte_schrei_der.htm | title = Der letzte Schrei / 1974 | publisher = Deutsches Filmhaus | language = de | access-date = 15 September 2017))</ref>

== Books ==
His books on theatre include ''The Necessary Theatre'' (Nick Hern, 1999), ''Exposed by the Mask'' (Oberon, 2000) and ''Shakespeare's Advice to the Players'' (Oberon, 2003). ''The Peter Hall Diaries ((ndash)) the Story of a Dramatic Battle'', edited by [[John Goodwin (theatre publicist)|John Goodwin]] (Hamish Hamilton) were first published in 1983 and documented his struggle to establish the National Theatre on the South Bank. His autobiography, ''Making an Exhibition of Myself'' (Sinclair-Stevenson), was published in 1993.<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.oberonbooks.com/peter-hall.html|title=Sir Peter Hall|website=Oberon Books|access-date=14 September 2017|archive-date=15 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170915023851/https://www.oberonbooks.com/peter-hall.html|url-status=dead))</ref>

== Awards ==
Peter Hall was appointed a [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire|CBE]] in 1963 and [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] in 1977 for his services to the theatre.<ref name="Bayreuth" /> He was awarded the [[Ordre des Arts et des Lettres|Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres]] (1965), received the Hamburg University Shakespeare Prize (1967) and was elected Member of the [[Athens Academy]] for Services to Greek Drama (2004). His professional awards and nominations included two [[Tony Award]]s (''The Homecoming'' and ''Amadeus'') and four awards for lifetime achievement in the arts.((clarify|date=September 2017)) In 2005 Hall was inducted into the [[American Theater Hall of Fame]].<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/theater-dance/2006/02/01/Theater-Hall-of-Fame-inducts-Thompson-Lithgow-others/stories/200602010223|title=Theater Hall of Fame inducts Thompson, Lithgow, others|first=Christopher|last=Rawson|work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|date=1 February 2006|access-date=12 September 2017))</ref> He was Chancellor of [[Kingston University]] (2000((ndash))2013),<ref name="Bayreuth" /> held the Wortham Chair in Performing Arts at the [[University of Houston]] (1999((ndash))2002) and was awarded honorary doctorates from a number of universities including Cambridge, York, Liverpool, Bath and London.((citation needed|date=September 2017))

== Personal life ==
((more citations needed section|date=September 2017))<!-- middle paragraph citation is unclear.  Does it verify the entire paragraph, including all of the roles so ascribed to his children, or does it only verify the fact that he has worked with his children.-->
Hall was married four times. He had six children and nine grandchildren. His first wife was French actress [[Leslie Caron]], with whom he had a son, [[Christopher Hall (producer)|Christopher]] (b. 1957), and a daughter, [[Jennifer Caron Hall|Jennifer]] (b. 1958). With his second wife, Jacqueline Taylor, he had a son, [[Edward Hall (director)|Edward]] (b. 1966), and a daughter, Lucy (b. 1969). Hall married American opera singer [[Maria Ewing]] in 1982 with whom he had one daughter, [[Rebecca Hall|Rebecca]] (b. 1982). He was finally married to Nicki Frei; the couple had one daughter, Emma (b. 1992).<ref name="Billington" />

Hall worked with all his children:<ref>((cite news|first=Ginny|last=Dougary|title=The conversation: Peter Hall|work=The Times|date=4 April 2009))</ref> for the National Theatre, Jennifer played Miranda in ''The Tempest'' (1988); Rebecca, aged nine, played young Sophie in the Channel 4 adaptation of ''The Camomile Lawn'', for The Peter Hall Company she played Vivie in ''Mrs Warren's Profession'' (2002), Rosalind in ''As You Like It'' (2003), Maria in ''Gallileo's Daughter'' (2004) and, for the NT, Viola in ''Twelfth Night'' (2011); Emma, aged two, played Joseph in ''Jacob'' (2004, TV Movie); for the Peter Hall Company, Lucy designed ''Hamlet'' (1994), ''Cuckoos'' (2003) and ''Whose Life is it Anyway?'' (2005); Christopher produced the Channel 4 television drama ''The Final Passage'' (1996); Edward co-directed the stage epic ''Tantalus'' (2000).

Hall was diagnosed with [[dementia]] in 2011 and retired from public life.<ref>((cite news|last=Hoggard|first=Liz|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dementia-is-a-very-sad-disease-its-a-difficult-thing-for-a-family-to-adjust-to-l5rhdb3vp|title='Dementia is a very sad disease. It's a difficult thing for a family to adjust to'|work=The Times|date=7 January 2017|access-date=12 September 2017)) ((subscription required))</ref>

Hall was described by ''[[The Guardian|Guardian]]'' contributor [[Mark Lawson]] as a "committed atheist, from as early as his 20s", leading "to a punishing work rate in his hurry to get everything done".<ref name="Lawson"/>

== Death and legacy ==
On 11 September 2017, Hall died from pneumonia at [[University College Hospital]], London, surrounded by family. He was 86 years old.<ref>((cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-41237988 |title=Sir Peter Hall: Theatre giant dies aged 86 |publisher=BBC News |date=12 September 2017 |access-date=12 September 2017))</ref><ref>((cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/12/theater/uk-peter-hall-theater-dead.html |title=Peter Hall, British Theater Director and Founder of Royal Shakespeare Company, Dies at 86 |work=The New York Times |first=Benedict |last=Nightingale |date=12 September 2017 |access-date=13 September 2017))</ref>

His obituary in ''[[The Times]]'' declared him "the most important figure in British theatre for half a century"<ref>[https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sir-peter-hall-wbgpvg6hh "Obituary: Sir Peter Hall"]. ''The Times'', 13 September 2017</ref> and a [[Royal National Theatre]] statement declared that Hall's "influence on the artistic life of Britain in the 20th century was unparalleled".<ref>[https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/sites/default/files/sir_peter_hall_1930_-_2017.pdf "Statement: Sir Peter Hall"]. ''National Theatre'', 12 September 2017.</ref>

Many luminaries of British theatre paid tribute to Hall. [[Nicholas Hytner]] said: "Without him there would have been no Royal Shakespeare Company."<ref name="auto">[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/12/peter-hall-royal-shakespeare-company-founder-dies-aged-86/ "Sir Peter Hall, Royal Shakespeare Company founder, dies aged 86"]. ''Daily Telegraph', 12 September 2017.</ref> [[Trevor Nunn]] said: "Not only a thrilling director, he was the great impresario of the age."<ref name="auto"/> [[Richard Eyre]] called Hall the "godfather" of British theatre: "Peter created the template of the modern director – part-magus, part-impresario, part-politician, part celebrity."<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/sep/12/sir-peter-hall-theatre-opera-and-film-director-dies-aged-86 "Tributes paid to legendary director and 'great impresario of the age' following his death in London"]. ''The Guardian'', 12 September 2017.</ref> Impresario [[Cameron Mackintosh]] said: "It's thanks to Peter Hall that people like Trevor Nunn, Nicholas Hytner and [[Sam Mendes]] transformed musical theatre around the world."<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b093hw2x "Broadcasting House"]. ''BBC Radio 4'', 17 September 2017.</ref> Theatre critic [[Michael Coveney]] said that he believed Hall's production of ''The Wars of the Roses'' "recast the [Shakespeare] history plays and put them at the centre of our culture".<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b093hf8s "Last Word: Sir Peter Hall"]. ''BBC Radio 4'', 15 September 2017.</ref>

[[Peter Brook]] said: "Peter was a man for all seasons – he could play any part that was needed". [[Elaine Paige]] said: "Peter Hall had absolute authority and, as a heavyweight of the theatre, real presence." [[Griff Rhys Jones]] said: "Peter was an absolute smoothie, the most charming and diplomatic man" and [[Samuel West]] said "Peter was an extraordinarily energetic, imaginative director – if you left him in the corner of a room he'd direct a play – but he was also a great campaigner. He never stopped arguing for the role of subsidised art in a civilised society and its ability to change people's lives."<ref>((cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/sep/12/peter-hall-tribute-peter-brook-elaine-paige-griff-rhys-jones-samuel-west |title='Visionary, master diplomat – and absolute smoothie': stars pay tribute to Peter Hall |first1=Chris |last1=Wiegand |first2=Imogen |last2=Tilden |date=12 September 2017 |work=The Guardian|access-date=12 September 2017))</ref>

In April 2018, the [[Society of London Theatre]], which presents the annual [[Laurence Olivier Awards]] recognizing achievements in London theatre, changed the award for Best Director to the [[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director|Sir Peter Hall Award for Best Director]].<ref>((cite news |title=Olivier Awards Rename Prize After Peter Hall Following 'In Memoriam' Blunder |first=Robert |last=Mitchell |date=2018-04-10 |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |url=https://variety.com/2018/legit/global/olivier-awards-rename-prize-after-peter-hall-following-in-memoriam-blunder-1202749100/ |access-date=2022-04-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220421034301/https://variety.com/2018/legit/global/olivier-awards-rename-prize-after-peter-hall-following-in-memoriam-blunder-1202749100/ |archive-date=2022-04-21 |url-status=live))</ref>

== Selected works ==
=== Stage productions ===
Hall published a complete list of his productions in his autobiography:<ref name="Autobiography">((cite book | last = Hall | first = Peter | url = https://archive.org/details/makingexhibition00hall | url-access = registration | chapter = List of Productions | title = Making an Exhibition of Myself: the autobiography of Peter Hall | publisher = Oberon Books | year = 2000 | isbn = 9781849436861 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/makingexhibition00hall/page/441 441]–451))</ref>
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* ''The Letter'' ([[W. Somerset Maugham]], Theatre Royal Windsor) 1953
* ''Blood Wedding'' ([[Federico García Lorca|Lorca]], London debut, Arts Theatre) 1954
* ''The Impresario from Smyrna'' ([[Goldoni]], Arts Theatre) 1954
* ''The Immoralist'' ([[Gide]], Arts Theatre) 1954
* ''Listen to the Wind'' (Angela Jeans, music by Vivian Ellis, Arts Theatre) 1954
* ''The Lesson'' ([[Eugène Ionesco|Ionesco]], Arts Theatre) 1955
* ''South'' (Julian Green, Arts Theatre) 1955
* ''[[Mourning Becomes Electra]]'' ([[Eugene O'Neill|O'Neill]], Arts Theatre) 1955
* ''[[Waiting for Godot]]'' ([[Samuel Beckett|Beckett]], English-language world premiere, Arts Theatre) 1955
* ''The Burnt Flower-Bed'' (Ugo Betti, Arts Theatre) 1955
* ''Summertime'' (Ugo Betti, Arts Theatre) 1955
* ''[[The Waltz of the Toreadors]]'' ([[Jean Anouilh]], English-language premiere, Arts Theatre) 1956
* ''Gigi'' ([[Colette]], New Theatre) 1956
* ''Love's Labours Lost'' (Shakespeare, Stratford-on-Avon) 1956
* ''The Gates of Summer'' ([[John Whiting]], New Theatre Oxford) 1956
* ''Camino Real'' ([[Tennessee Williams]], Phoenix Theatre, London) 1957
* ''The Moon and Sixpence'' (John Gardner, opera debut, Sadlers Wells) 1957
* ''Cymbeline'' (Shakespeare, Stratford-on-Avon) 1957
* ''[[The Rope Dancers]]'' (Morton Wishengard, New York debut, Cort Theatre) 1957
* ''Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'' ([[Tennessee Williams]], Comedy Theatre) 1958
* ''Twelfth Night'' (Shakespeare, Stratford-on-Avon) 1958
* ''Brouhaha'' (George Tabori, Aldwych) 1958
* ''Shadow of Heroes'' (Robert Ardrey, Piccadilly Theatre) 1958
* ''Madame de…'' (Anouilh, Arts Theatre) 1959
* ''Traveller Without Luggage'' (Anouilh, Arts Theatre) 1959
* ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' (Shakespeare, Stratford-on-Avon) 1959
* ''Coriolanus'' (Shakespeare, Stratford-on-Avon) 1959
* ''The Wrong Side of the Park'' ([[John Mortimer]], Cambridge Theatre) 1959
* ''The Two Gentlemen of Verona'' (Shakespeare, Royal Shakespeare Company) 1960
* ''Twelfth Night'' (Shakespeare, RSC) 1960
* ''Troilus and Cressida'' (Shakespeare, RSC) 1960
* ''Ondine'' (Giradoux, RSC, Aldwych) 1961
* ''Becket'' (Anouilh, RSC, Aldwych) 1961
* ''Romeo and Juliet'' (Shakespeare, RSC) 1961
* ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' (Shakespeare, RSC) 1962
* ''The Collection'' (Pinter, RSC) 1962
* ''Troilus and Cressida'' (Shakespeare, RSC) 1962
* ''[[The Wars of the Roses (adaptation)|The Wars of the Roses]]'' (adapted with John Barton from Shakespeare's  ''Henry VI Parts 1, 2 and 3'' and ''[[Richard III (play)|Richard III]]'', RSC) 1963
* ''Edward IV'' (Shakespeare, RSC) 1963
* ''Richard II'' (Shakespeare, RSC) 1964
* ''Henry IV Parts 1 and 2'' (Shakespeare, RSC) 1964
* ''Henry V'' (Shakespeare, RSC) 1964
* ''Eh?'' (Henry Livings, RSC, Aldwych) 1964
* ''The Homecoming'' (Pinter, world premiere, RSC) 1965
* ''Moses and Aaron'' ([[Arnold Schoenberg|Schoenberg]], UK premiere, Royal Opera House) 1965
* ''Hamlet'' (Shakespeare, RSC) 1965
* ''The Government Inspector'' ([[Gogol]], RSC, Aldwych) 1966
* ''The Magic Flute'' ([[Mozart]], Royal Opera House) 1966
* ''Staircase'' (Charles Wood, RSC, Aldwych) 1966
* ''Macbeth'' (Shakespeare, RSC) 1967
* ''A Delicate Balance'' ([[Edward Albee]], RSC, Aldwych) 1969
* ''Dutch Uncle'' (Simon Gray, RSC, Aldwych) 1969
* ''Landscape'' and ''Silence'' (Pinter, world premieres, RSC, Aldwych) 1969
* ''The Knot Garden'' ([[Michael Tippett|Tippett]], world premiere, Royal Opera House) 1970
* ''La Calisto'' (Cavalli, Glyndebourne debut, Glyndebourne Festival Opera) 1970
* ''The Battle of Shrivings'' ([[Peter Shaffer|Shaffer]], Lyric Theatre) 1970
* ''Eugene Onegin'' ([[Tchaikovsky]], Royal Opera House) 1971
* ''[[Old Times]]'' (Harold Pinter, world premiere, RSC Aldwych) 1971
* ''Tristan und Isolde'' ([[Wagner]], Royal Opera House) 1971
* ''All Over'' (Edward Albee, RSC, Aldwych) 1972
* ''Il Ritorno d'Ulisse'' ([[Monteverdi]], Glyndebourne Festival Opera) 1972
* ''[[Via Galactica]]'' (lyrics by Christopher Gore, music by Galt MacDermot, New York) 1972
* ''Le Nozze di Figaro'' (Mozart, Glyndebourne Festival Opera) 1973
* ''The Tempest'' (Shakespeare, National Theatre) 1973
* ''John Gabriel Borkman'' ([[Ibsen]], NT) 1974
* ''Happy Days'' (Beckett, NT) 1974
* ''No Man's Land'' (Pinter, world premiere, NT) 1975
* ''Hamlet'' (Shakespeare, official opening of the Lyttelton, NT) 1975
* ''Judgement'' (Barry Collins, NT) 1975
* ''Tamburlaine the Great'' ([[Christopher Marlowe]], official opening of the Olivier, NT) 1976
* ''Bedroom Farce'' (Ayckbourn, also co-director, London and US premieres, NT and Broadway) 1977
* ''Don Giovanni'' (Mozart, Glyndebourne Festival Opera) 1977
* ''Volpone'' ([[Ben Jonson]], NT) 1977
* ''The Country Wife'' ([[Wycherley]], NT) 1977
* ''Cosi fan Tutte'' (Mozart, Glyndebourne Festival Opera) 1978
* ''The Cherry Orchard'' (Chekhov, NT) 1978
* ''Macbeth'' (Shakespeare, NT) 1978
* ''[[Betrayal (play)|Betrayal]]'' (Pinter, world premiere, NT) 1978
* ''Fidelio'' ([[Beethoven]], Glyndebourne Festival Opera) 1979
* ''[[Amadeus (play)|Amadeus]]'' (Peter Shaffer, world premiere, NT) 1979
* ''Othello'' (Shakespeare, NT) 1980
* ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' ([[Britten]], Glyndebourne Festival Opera) 1981
* ''The Oresteia'' ([[Aeschylus]], trans. Harrison, NT and Epidaurus) 1981
* ''Orfeo et Eurydice'' ([[Gluck]], Glyndebourne Festival Opera) 1982
* ''The Importance of Being Earnest'' ([[Oscar Wilde|Wilde]], NT) 1982
* ''Macbeth'' ([[Verdi]], Metropolitan Opera, New York) 1982
* ''Other Places'' (Pinter, world premiere, NT) 1982
* ''Der Ring des Nibelungen'' (Wagner, Bayreuth Festival Opera) 1983
* ''[[Jean Seberg (musical)|Jean Seberg]]'' (lyrics by [[Christopher Adler (lyricist)|Christopher Adler]], book by Julian Barry, music by [[Marvin Hamlisch]], NT) 1983
* ''[[Animal Farm]]'' ([[George Orwell]], adapted by Hall, NT) 1984
* ''Coriolanus'' (Shakespeare, NT and Athens) 1984
* ''L'Incoronazione di Poppea'' (Monteverdi, Glyndebourne Festival Opera) 1984
* ''Yonadab'' (Shaffer, world premiere, NT) 1985
* ''Carmen'' ([[Bizet]], Glyndebourne) 1985
* ''Albert Herring'' (Britten, Glyndebourne) 1985
* ''The Petition'' (Brian Clark, NT) 1986
* ''Simon Boccanegra'' (Verdi, Glyndebourne) 1986
* ''Salome'' ([[Strauss]], LA Opera) 1986
* ''Coming in to Land'' ([[Poliakoff]], world premiere, NT) 1986
* ''Antony and Cleopatra'' (Shakespeare, NT) 1987
* ''La Traviata'' (Verdi, Glyndebourne) 1987
* ''Entertaining Strangers'' ([[David Edgar (playwright)|David Edgar]], NT) 1987
* ''Cymbeline'' (Shakespeare, NT, Moscow and Epidaurus) 1988
* ''The Winter's Tale'' (Shakespeare, NT, Moscow and Epidaurus) 1988
* ''The Tempest'' (Shakespeare, NT, Moscow and Epidaurus) 1988
* ''Falstaff'' (Verdi, Glyndebourne) 1988
* ''[[Orpheus Descending]]'' ([[Tennessee Williams]], Peter Hall Company, Haymarket and Broadway) 1988/9
* ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'' (Shakespeare, PHCo, Phoenix Theatre and Broadway) 1989/90
* ''New Year'' (Tippett, world premiere, Houston Opera) 1989
* ''Le Nozze di Figaro'' (Mozart, Glyndebourne) 1989
* ''The Wild Duck'' (Ibsen, trans. Hall/Ewbank, PHCo, Phoenix Theatre) 1990
* ''Born Again''  (after Ionesco's ''Rhinoceros'', lyrics by Julian Barry, music by Jason Carr, PHCo/Chichester Festival Theatre) 1990
* ''The Homecoming'' (Pinter, PHCo Comedy Theatre) 1990
* ''Twelfth Night'' (Shakespeare, PHCo, Playhouse Theatre) 1991
* ''Tartuffe'' ([[Moliere]], trans. Bolt, PHCo, Playhouse Theatre) 1991
* ''The Rose Tattoo'' (Tennessee Williams, PHCo, Playhouse Theatre) 1991
* ''Four Baboons Adoring the Sun'' (John Guare, world premiere, Lincoln Center) 1992
* ''Sienna Red'' (Poliakoff, PHCo, Liverpool Playhouse) 1992
* ''All's Well That Ends Well'' (Shakespeare, RSC, Swan) 1992
* ''The Gift of the Gorgon'' (Shaffer, world premiere, RSC, Barbican and [[Wyndham's Theatre]]) 1992
* ''An Ideal Husband'' (Wilde, PHCo/Bill Kenwright Ltd, Globe Theatre and Broadway) 1992
* ''The Magic Flute'' (Mozart, LA Opera) 1993
* ''Separate Tables'' ([[Rattigan]], PHCo/BKL, Albery Theatre) 1993
* ''Lysistrata'' (Aristophanes, trans. Bolt, PHCo/BKL, Old Vic, Wyndham's and Epidaurus) 1993
* ''She Stoops to Conquer'' ([[Goldsmith]], PHCo/BKL, Queen's Theatre) 1993
* ''Piaf'' (Pam Gems, PHCo/BKL, Piccadilly Theatre) 1993
* ''An Absolute Turkey'' ([[Georges Feydeau|Feydeau]], trans. Hall/Frei, PHCo/BKL, Thorndike Theatre) 1993
* ''On Approval'' (Lonsdale, PHCo/BKL, Playhouse Theatre) 1994
* ''Hamlet'' (Shakespeare, PHCo/BKL, Gielgud Theatre) 1994
* ''The Master Builder'' (Ibsen, trans. Hall/Ewbank, PHCo/BKL, Haymarket) 1995
* ''Julius Caesar'' (Shakespeare, RSC) 1995
* ''Mind Millie for Me'' (Feydeau, trans. Hall/Frei, PHCo/BKL, Haymarket) 1996
* ''The Oedipus Plays'' (Sophocles, trans. Bolt, NT, Athens and Epidaurus) 1996
* ''The School for Wives'' (Moliere, trans. Bolt, PHCo/BKL, Picadilly Theatre) 1996
* ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' (Tennessee Williams, PHCo/BKL, Haymarket) 1996
* ''Waste'' ([[Granville Barker]], PHCo, Old Vic) 1997
* ''The Seagull'' (Chekhov, trans. Stoppard, PHCo, Old Vic) 1997
* ''Waiting for Godot'' (Beckett, PHCo, Old Vic) 1997
* ''King Lear'' (Shakespeare, PHCo, Old Vic) 1997
* ''Just the Three of Us'' ([[Simon Gray]], PHCo/BKL, Theatre Royal, Windsor)
* ''The Misanthrope'' (Moliere, trans. Bolt, PHCo/BKL, Piccadilly Theatre) 1998
* ''Major Barbara'' ([[George Bernard Shaw]], PHCo/BKL, Piccadilly) 1998
* ''Filumena'' (de Fillipo, PHCo/BKL, Piccadilly) 1998
* ''[[Amadeus (play)|Amadeus]]'' (Shaffer, PHCo, Old Vic and Broadway) 1998/9
* ''Kafka's Dick'' ([[Alan Bennett]], PHCo/BKL Piccadilly) 1998
* ''Measure for Measure'' (Shakespeare, Center Theater Group, Los Angeles) 1999
* ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' (Shakespeare, Center Theater Group, LA) 1999
* ''Lenny'' (Julian Barry, PHCo, Queen's Theatre) 1999
* ''Cuckoos'' (Manfredi, trans. Teevan, PHCo, Gate Theatre) 2000
* ''Tantalus'' (John Barton, world premiere, RSC/Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Denver, UK tour and Barbican) 2000/1
* ''Romeo and Juliet'' (Shakespeare, Center Theater Group, LA) 2001
* ''Japes'' (Simon Gray, world premiere, PHCo, Haymarket) 2001
* ''Troilus and Cressida'' (Shakespeare, Theatre for a New Audience, off-Broadway) 2001
* ''Otello'' (Verdi, Glyndebourne and Lyric Opera, Chicago) 2001
* ''The Royal Family'' (Ferber, PHCo, Haymarket) 2001
* ''Lady Windermere's Fan'' (Wilde, PHCo, Haymarket) 2002
* ''The Bacchai'' (Euripides, trans. Teevan, NT and Epidaurus) 2002
* ''Albert Herring'' (Britten, Glyndebourne) 2002
* ''Mrs Warren's Profession'' (Shaw, PHCo, Strand Theatre) 2002
* ''Where There's a Will'' (Feydeau, trans. Frei, PHCo/Theatre Royal Bath) 2003
* ''Betrayal'' (Pinter, PHCo/Theatre Royal Bath, UK tour and West End) 2003
* ''Design for Living'' (Coward, PHCo/Theatre Royal Bath and UK tour) 2003
* ''As You Like It'' (Shakespeare, PHCo/Theatre Royal Bath, UK and US tour) 2003/4
* ''Le Nozze di Figaro'' (Mozart, Lyric Opera Chicago) 2003
* ''Happy Days'' (Beckett, PHCo/Theatre Royal Bath and Arts Theatre) 2003
* ''Man and Superman'' (Shaw, PHCo/Theatre Royal Bath) 2004
* ''Gallileo's Daughter'' ([[Timberlake Wertenbaker]], world premiere, PHCo/Theatre Royal Bath) 2004
* ''[[The Dresser]]'' ([[Ronald Harwood|Harwood]], PHCo/Theatre Royal Bath, UK tour and West End) 2004
* ''Whose Life is it Anyway?'' (Brian Clark, PHCo/Sonia Friedman Productions, Duke of York's) 2005
* ''La Cenerentola''  ([[Rossini]], Glyndebourne) 2005
* ''Much Ado About Nothing'' (Shakespeare, PHCo/Theatre Royal Bath) 2005
* ''You Never Can Tell'' (Shaw, PHCo/Theatre Royal Bath and West End) 2005
* ''[[Waiting for Godot]]'' ([[Samuel Beckett|Beckett]], 50th anniversary production, PHCo/Theatre Royal Bath, UK tour and West End) 2005/6
* ''A Midsummer Marriage'' (Tippett, Lyric Opera Chicago) 2005
* ''The Importance of Being Earnest'' (Wilde, Los Angeles and New York) 2006
* ''Hay Fever'' (Coward, PHCo/Bill Kenwright Ltd, Haymarket) 2006
* ''Measure for Measure'' (Shakespeare, PHCo/Theatre Royal Bath) 2006
* ''Habeas Corpus'' (Alan Bennett, PHCo/Theatre Royal Bath and UK tour) 2006
* ''[[Amy's View]]'' ([[David Hare (playwright)|David Hare]], PHCo/Theatre Royal Bath, UK tour and West End) 2006
* ''Old Times'' (Pinter, PHCo/Theatre Royal Bath and UK tour) 2007
* ''Little Nell'' (Simon Gray, world premiere, PHCo/Theatre Royal Bath) 2007
* ''Pygmalion'' (Shaw, PHCo/Theatre Royal Bath and Old Vic) 2007/8
* ''The Vortex'' (Coward, PHCo/BKL, Windsor, UK tour and West End) 2007/8
* ''Uncle Vanya'' (Chekhov, trans. Mulrine, English Touring Theatre, Rose Kingston and UK tour) 2008
* ''The Portrait of a Lady'' ([[Henry James]], adapted by Frei, PHCo/Theatre Royal Bath and Rose Kingston) 2008
* ''A Doll's House'' (Ibsen, trans. Mulrine, PHCo/Theatre Royal Bath and Rose Kingston) 2008
* ''Love's Labours Lost'' (Shakespeare, Rose Kingston) 2008
* ''The Browning Version'' (Rattigan, PHCo/Theatre Royal Bath and UK tour) 2009
* ''The Apple Cart'' (Shaw, PHCo/Theatre Royal Bath) 2009
* ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' (Shakespeare, PHCo, Rose Kingston) 2010
* ''Bedroom Farce'' (Ayckbourn, PHCo/BKL, Rose Kingston and West End) 2010
* ''The Rivals'' (Sheridan, PHCo/Theatre Royal Bath, UK tour and West End) 2010
* ''Twelfth Night'' (Shakespeare, NT) 2011
* ''Henry IV Parts 1'' and ''2'' (Shakespeare, PHCo/Theatre Royal Bath) 2011
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===Film and television===
Hall published a complete list of his films in his autobiography:<ref name="Autobiography" />
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* ''[[Work Is a Four-Letter Word]]'' (1968)
* ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968 film)|A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' (1968)
* ''[[Three into Two Won't Go]]'' (1969)
* ''[[Perfect Friday]]'' (1970)
* ''[[The Homecoming (film)|The Homecoming]]'' (1973)
* ''[[Akenfield]]'' (1974)
* ''[[When Mother Went on Strike]]'' (1974)
* ''[[Aquarius (UK TV series)|Aquarius]]'' TV (presenter: 1975–1976)
* ''[[She's Been Away]]'' (BBC Films, 1989: wins two awards at the [[Venice Film Festival]])
* ''[[The Camomile Lawn (TV serial)|The Camomile Lawn]]'' (Channel 4 TV mini-series, 1992)
* ''[[Jacob (film)|Jacob]]'' (TV movie, 1994)
* ''[[Never Talk to Strangers]]'' (1995)
* ''[[The Final Passage#Television adaptation|The Final Passage]]'' (Channel 4 TV, 1996)
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Hall also filmed many of his stage productions and operas for television.((cn|date=September 2017)) -->

===Books===
* ''The Wars of the Roses'' (with [[John Barton (director)|John Barton]]: BBC Books) 1970<ref>((cite web |url=http://www.unitedagents.co.uk/cv/10170/books |title=Peter Hall |publisher=unitedagents.co.uk |access-date=14 September 2017))</ref>
* ''John Gabriel Borkman'' (Ibsen, trans. with [[Inga-Stina Ewbank]]: Athlone Press) 1975<ref>((cite web|url=http://nb-rhksflwk.com/John-Gabriel-Borkman--or--cHenrik-Ibsen--English-version-and-introduction-by-Inga-Stina-Ewbank-and-P/6/ehhfh|title=John Gabriel Borkman / Henrik Ibsen ; English version and introduction by Inga-Stina Ewbank and Peter Hall. book online read or download|website=nb-rhksflwk.com|access-date=14 September 2017|archive-date=6 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806133951/http://nb-rhksflwk.com/John-Gabriel-Borkman--or--cHenrik-Ibsen--English-version-and-introduction-by-Inga-Stina-Ewbank-and-P/6/ehhfh|url-status=dead))</ref>
* ''Peter Hall's Diaries: the Story of a Dramatic Battle'' (ed. [[John Goodwin (theatre publicist)|John Goodwin]]: Hamish Hamilton) 1983; reissued (Oberon Books) 2000<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.oberonbooks.com/peter-halls-diaries.html|title=Peter Hall's Diaries: The Story of a Dramatic Battle|website=Oberon Books|access-date=14 September 2017|archive-date=14 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914220755/https://www.oberonbooks.com/peter-halls-diaries.html|url-status=dead))</ref>
* ''Animal Farm'' (stage adaptation of [[George Orwell]]'s novel: Heinemann Press/Methuen) 1986((citation needed|date=September 2017))
* ''The Wild Duck'' ([[Henrik Ibsen]], trans. with [[Inga-Stina Ewbank]]: Absolute Classics) 1990<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.oberonbooks.com/the-wild-duck-john-gabriel-borkman.html|title=The Wild Duck \/ John Gabriel Borkman|website=Oberon Books|access-date=14 September 2017|archive-date=15 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170915023947/https://www.oberonbooks.com/the-wild-duck-john-gabriel-borkman.html|url-status=dead))</ref>
* ''Making An Exhibition of Myself'' (autobiography: Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd) 1993; updated (Oberon Books) 2000<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.oberonbooks.com/autobiography-of-peter-hall.html|title=The Autobiography of Peter Hall: Making an Exhibition of Myself|website=Oberon Books|access-date=14 September 2017|archive-date=14 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914220424/https://www.oberonbooks.com/autobiography-of-peter-hall.html|url-status=dead))</ref>
* ''An Absolute Turkey'' ([[Georges Feydeau]], trans. with Nicki Frei: Oberon Books) 1994<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.oberonbooks.com/absolute-turkey.html|title=An Absolute Turkey|website=Oberon Books|access-date=14 September 2017|archive-date=14 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914220444/https://www.oberonbooks.com/absolute-turkey.html|url-status=dead))</ref>
* ''The Master Builder'' (Ibsen, trans. with Inga-Stina Ewbank) 1995<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.cix.co.uk/~shutters/reviews/95037.htm|title=Review of The Master Builder|website=cix.co.uk|access-date=14 September 2017))</ref><ref>((cite web|url=http://ibsen.nb.no/id/45183.0|title=Ibsen.nb.no|website=ibsen.nb.no|access-date=14 September 2017))</ref>
* ''The Necessary Theatre'' (Nick Hern Books) 1990<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/the-necessary-theatre|title=Nick Hern Books – The Necessary Theatre By Peter Hall|website=Nick Hern Books|access-date=14 September 2017))</ref>
* ''Exposed by the Mask: Form and Language in Drama'' (Oberon Books) 2000<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.oberonbooks.com/exposed-by-the-mask.html|title=Exposed by the Mask: Form and Language in Drama|website=Oberon Books|access-date=14 September 2017|archive-date=14 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914220708/https://www.oberonbooks.com/exposed-by-the-mask.html|url-status=dead))</ref>
* ''Shakespeare's Advice to the Players'' (Oberon Books) 2003<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.oberonbooks.com/shakespeares-advice.html|title=Shakespeare's Advice to the Players|website=Oberon Books|access-date=14 September 2017|archive-date=14 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914220752/https://www.oberonbooks.com/shakespeares-advice.html|url-status=dead))</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading==
* ((cite book | last=Pearson | first=Richard | title=A Band of Arrogant and United Heroes | location=London | publisher=Adelphi Press | year=1990 | isbn=1-85654-005-7 ))
* ((cite book | last=Simon | first=Trowbridge | year=2010 | title=The Company: A Biographical Dictionary of the Royal Shakespeare Company | location=Oxford | publisher=Editions Albert Creed | isbn=978-0-9559830-2-3 ))
* ((cite book |first=Stephen |author-link=Stephen Fay |last=Fay |year=1996 |title=Power Play: the Life and Times of Peter Hall |publisher=Hodder & Stoughton |location=London |isbn=0340666331))

==External links==
* [http://www.stratfordians.org.uk/ The Company: A Biographical Dictionary of the RSC: Online database]((dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes ))
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20170913140045/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f48fd78 Peter Hall] at the [[British Film Institute]]
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* ((IMDb name|355991|Peter Hall))
* ((discogs artist|Peter Hall (6)))
* [http://webofstories.com/gl/peter.hall Peter Hall] video at [http://webofstories.com Web of Stories]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060314065408/http://www.fathom.com/contributors/4557.html Fathom biography]
* [http://www.bruceduffie.com/hall.html Interview with Peter Hall], 5 November 1987 (about opera)
*[https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/private-lives/relationships/collections1/parliament-and-the-1960s/joint-committee-theatre-censorship/ Parliament & the Sixties- Peter Hall- 1967 Theatre Censorship – UK Parliament Living Heritage]

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