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Hands, Terry

LC control no.nr 91024867
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Personal name headingHands, Terry
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Variant(s)Hands, Terence David, 1941-2020
Birth date1941-01-09
Death date2020-02-04
Place of birthAldershot (England)
Field of activityTheater--Production and direction Opera--Production and direction
AffiliationRoyal Shakespeare Company
Comédie-Française
Profession or occupationTheatrical producers and directors Opera producers and directors
Found inGenêt, J. The balcony, 1991: t.p. (Terry Hands)
Guardian WWW site, viewed Feb. 5, 2020 (Terry Hands; Terence David Hands, stage director, born 9 January 1941, Aldershot, Hampshire; died 4 February 2020; spent more time with, and did more productions for, the Royal Shakespeare Company than either its founder, Peter Hall, or Hall's successor, Trevor Nunn. He joined the company in 1966, acted as joint artistic director with Nunn from 1978 to 1986, then took on the top job alone before handing over to Adrian Noble, whom he had encouraged, in 1991. Hands never worked in film or television, but staged several operas, including Parsifal at Covent Garden in 1979. In Paris, he was for a time a consultant director at the Comédie-Française, and was honoured as a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres)