Nikolas Simmonds

(19**-) Director. Directed ***, Quartermain's Terms (for Pieter Toerien) in 1981-82, * SIMMONDS Nikolas. He directed Pieter Toerien’s production of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus starring Richard Haines and Ralph Lawson at the Alhambra Theatre in 1981. Michael Atkinson replaced Haines in a subsequent extended season. He directed Peter Nichols’ Passion Play at the Andre Huguenet in 1981. He directed Simon Gray’s Quartermaine’s Terms starring Richard Haines at the Alhambra in 1982. He directed Pieter Toerien’s production of Agnes of God starring Fiona Ramsay, Pauline Bailey and Lena Ferugia at the Baxter and the Alhambra in 1983. He directed Fiona Ramsay and Richard Haines in Tom Stoppards The Real Thing which was staged at the Andre Huguenet in 1983. He directed the Baxter production of Julian Mitchell’s Another Country starring Sean Taylor, Neil McCarthy, Jeremy Crutchley and John Carson with lighting design by Pip Marshall at the Baxter on 17 June 1983 before it moved to the Market with minor cast changes in July.

Sources

Tucker, 1997

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