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Contact Alasdair
for enquiries about commissions / collaborations / workshops:
hunter @ shakespeare.scot
+44 (0) 7989 215 091
twitter: @alasdair_h
please: no casting enquiries
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PERKIN WARBECK
CAST
Amy Conway – King Henry Angie Cassidy – King James Danielle Jam – Perkin Warbeck Charlotte Driessler – Daubeny Lesley Lemon – Crawford Tanyaradzwa Gimani – Katherine Molly Crighton – Huntly Beth Frieden – Oxford Kim Allan – Durham / Astley EmmaClaire Brightlyn – Daliell / Surrey Cate Barr – Urswick / Heron Valerie Andrews – Clifford / Hialis / Mayor of Cork Zoe Bullock – Frion / Countess / Marchmont / Simnel Rachel Guthrie – Jane / Skelton / Constable / StanleyWith thanks to Esme Bayley, Vivien Reid and Nicole Cooper
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A Merry Note
An online performance exploring correspondence in times of separation, isolation and absence, through the lens of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost and other contemporary sources. A performance made with Scottish actors under lockdown, sponsored by the University of Aberdeen Centre for Early Modern Studies.
These letters were first screened online on the 25th of June 2020 alongside discussion between Professor Andrew Gordon of the University of Aberdeen and Shakespeare.scot’s artistic director Alasdair Hunter.
Performers: Esme Bayley, EmmaClaire Brightlyn, David Rankine, Ewan Somers, Josh Whitelaw.
Directed by Alasdair Hunter
Conceived by Andrew Gordon and Alasdair Hunter-
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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR - SHAKESPEARE.SCOT
Alasdair Hunter is founding Artistic Director of Shakespeare.scot – a global Shakespeare company rooted in Scotland. Shakespeare.scot is committed to the development of classical performance in Scotland through international links and collaborations with leading Shakespearean artists.
DIRECTING
Pericles - shakespeare.scot - RRS Discovery - 2019
What Country Friends Is This? - Aberdeen Performing Arts - Maritime Museum, Aberdeen - 2017
Romeo and Juliet - Wilderness of Tigers - Govanhill Baths - 2017
Macbeth - Wilderness of Tigers - University of Glasgow Cloisters - 2016
Doctor Faustus (in Original Pronunciation) - Passion in Practice - Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe - 2015
Hamlet - Botanic Gardens - Bard in the Botanics - 2014
The Tempest - Midwest Tour - Stone Soup Shakespeare - 2013
Love’s Labour’s Lost - Tron Theatre, Glasgow - 2012
Comedy of Errors - Tron Theatre, Glasgow - 2011
Heuristics in the Diner by Peter Arnott - Tron Theatre, Glasgow; Traverse Theatre Edinburgh; Hampstead Theatre, London - 2010ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
The Seafarer - Perth Theatre and Lyric Belfast - dir. Rachel O’Riordan - 2013
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Twelfth Night dir Rachel O’Riordan - Perth Theatre
Smalltown by DC Jackson, Johnny McKnight and Douglas Maxwell dir Johnny McKnight - Random Accomplice (touring)
Parents Evening by Bathsheba Doran dir Jim Simpson - Flea Theater NYC
The Wall by DC Jackson dir Gregory Thompson - Borderline / Tron Theatre (touring)
CONNECTIONS DIRECTOR - NATIONAL THEATRE (LONDON)@ Eden Court & Sheffield Theatres 2020 (impacted by C-19)
@ Eden Court, Northern Stage 2019
@ Traverse, Lyric Belfast 2018
@ Royal & Derngate 2017DRAMA SCHOOL / UNIVERSITY GUEST DIRECTING
Cymbeline - East 15 (online due to C-19)
Pericles - Rose Bruford @ Summerhall
Medea - University of Cumbria
Brothers Karamazov - University of Cumbria
As You Like It - University of Cumbria
Hamlet - University of Cumbria
Three Sisters - University of Cumbria
Macbeth - University of Cumbria
Twelfth Night - University of Cumbria
Blood Wedding - University of Cumbria
Richard II - University of CumbriaSCRIPT DEVELOPMENT - VARIOUS COMPANIES
Writers include:
Peter Arnott
Frances Poet
Eve Nicol
JC Marshall
Evan Placey
Wendy Miller
Mairead Bush
Andrew Stott
Chris Donald
Organisations include:
Playwrights’ Studio Scotland
Aberdeen Performing Arts
Stage To Page
University of GlasgowBOARD MEMBERSHIPS
President. Queen Margaret Union. 2008/09.
Board Member. Macrobert Arts Centre, Stirling. 2009 – 2011.
Board Member. Queen Margaret Union. 2007 - 2010.EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)
MA Classical and Contemporary Text (Directing) with Merit: 2010University of Glasgow 2008
MA Honours Theatre Studies. Upper Second Class (2:1)Shakespeare’s Globe
One Month Residency: 2010DeVos Institute of Arts Management at the University of Maryland
The Cycle: Management of Successful Arts and Cultural Organisations
Alasdair directs classic plays and plays by writers who are very much alive.
