Hands, Terry

LC control no.	nr 91024867
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Hands, Terry *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Hands, Terence David, 1941-2020
Birth date	1941-01-09
Death date	2020-02-04
Place of birth	Aldershot (England)
Field of activity	Theater--Production and direction Opera--Production and direction
Affiliation	Royal Shakespeare Company Comédie-Française
Profession or occupation	Theatrical producers and directors Opera producers and directors
Found in	Genêt, 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)