Jonathan Holloway Biography and CV (contact: jonathan@redshifttheatreco.co.uk, Facebook & twitter)
"Jonathan Holloway: solid art extract" - The Sunday Times Magazine. Scroll down for full CV or return to Homepage.
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Jonathan Holloway Biography and CV (contact: jonathan@redshifttheatreco.co.uk, Facebook & twitter) "Jonathan Holloway: solid art extract" - The Sunday Times Magazine. Scroll down for full CV or return to Homepage.
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Summer 2010 has been bewlideringly busy for Holloway. His new English version of the Camoletti (of Boeing Boeing fame) farce Changing Rooms opened very successfuly and is now looking for further production/publication opportunities. June/July saw Jonathan reviving The Fall of Man for Bristol's Tobacco Factory and in July Red Shift presented his Invisible Show to great enthusiasm at Latitude and Westival. His original play about the attempt to burn the negative of Citizen Kane - The Kane Conspiracy - airs on BBC Radio 4 Autumn 2010 and his pugilistic re-working of Wuthering Heights for Radio 3 goes out early 2011.
Holloway's most recent 2009 Edinburgh Fringe outing with The Fall of Man won full houses throughout the Festival and praise for a bold move into a new style of intense site-sensitive production. The Scotsman: * * * * (featured Hot Show) "they have created another provocative piece - on the surface a small story of a briefly lived-out relationship, but more fundamentally, a tribute to the kind of fleeting passions that make life worth living." Three Weeks: * * * * "A bold, impressively performed production that endows a difficult literary work with graphic contemporary resonance." One4review.com: * * * * "In the intimate space, barely lit by small domestic light bulbs, good performances are drawn from both performers in this strong hard hitting performance" Metro: * * * * "Casting the audience as culpable voyeurs by having us cluster round their bed, this is a branding iron of sex and guilt." EdinburghGuide.com: * * * * "This is a superbly inventive and beautifully adapted piece that grips the audience in a vice and refuses to let them escape." The List: * * *, Fringe Review.co.uk: * * *, The Guardian: * * * , Broadway Baby: * * *, What's on Stage.com: * * *, British Theatre Guide: * * *, Fest/The Skinny: * * *, Edinburgh Insider: * * *
Summary: Jonathan Holloway's work as a director, writer and teacher has been seen and heard all over the world. He has directed 70+ professional theatre events ranging from touring circus to pocket musicals to landmark reinventions of the classics, written 48 professionally produced plays and collaborated with some of the most important writers, designers and composers in British theatre. His work as a writer is frequently produced by other directors and has been translated into Spanish and Cantonese.
As a Director: Jonathan is committed to making interdisciplinary work that marries intellectual rigor, theatrical invention and entertainment. He has always worked at the innovative end of UK practice and his dynamic theatre-making is best summed up in four of Red Shift's keynote productions; a MORT D'ARTHUR which employed the first thorough-going integration of Capoeira (accompanied by Afro Brazilian music) seen on the professional stage in this country; a new translation by Neil Bartlett of Moliere's LE MISANTHROPE which employed the archaic Alexandrine verse form in a sumptuous version that delighted audiences here and abroad; Greg Cullen's original drama FRIDA AND DIEGO which drew on imagery from Kahlo's pictures to explore her tempestuous life; a modern brutalist rendition of the First Quarto HAMLET played in Wayne Hemingway's Red or Dead clothes against a thunderous contemporary rock score. Jonathan founded Red Shift in 1982. Under his leadership it grew from a shoestring operation to become an Arts Council RFO and a linchpin of UK national touring provision. He has directed all but one of the company's nearly sixty shows. Freelance directing has included THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD in Ireland, LE MISANTHROPE in Boston USA and co-directing Gifford's Circus. His work has toured to hundreds of theatres in the British Isles and traveled to North America, South America, the Near and Far East.
As a Writer: Scripts for Red Shift include THE DOUBLE, IN THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST (Edinburgh Fringe First, 1987), THE HAMMER (also recorded for BBC Radio 3), DEATH IN VENICE, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (also produced in Chile), LES MISERABLES (pub. Samuel French, recently in rep in Hong Kong), THE ASPERN PAPERS, NOSFERATU THE VISITOR, NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY, the first stage versions of MORT D'ARTHUR, THE THIRD MAN, GET CARTER [review] [review] (recently revived in Sydney, Australia) and VERTIGO. Jonathan's freelance theatre writing includes DARKNESS FALLS (pub. Samuel French) for the Palace Theatre Watford, BECAUSE IT'S THERE (2000), ANGELS AMONG THE TREES (2004) and A SENSIBLE WORLD (2005), all for Nottingham Playhouse. His writing for BBC Radio Drama includes fifteen episodes of the original daily serial POSTCARDS, a five episode series celebrating the cult TV show THE MAN FROM UNCLE, original ghosts stories and hard-boiled American-set thrillers, adaptations include stories by George Eliot, Willa Cather, Walter de la Mare, Heinrich Boll, Leo Tolstoy, Vita Sackville-West and Charlotte Bronte. The unusual range of his work in broadcasting embraces dramatisations of the entirety of C P Snow's eleven novel cycle STRANGERS AND BROTHERS, Christiaan Barnard's first successful human heart transplant, Evelyn Waugh's THE LOVED ONE, Andrew Motion's THE INVENTION OF DR CAKE, Olivia Manning's LEVANT TRILOGY, Goethe's FAUST and Malory's MORT d'ARTHUR. His version of VERTIGO [review] was recently revived in a major Nottingham Playhouse production.
Teaching, Broadcasting and Beyond.....: He has travelled to Chile to lead EU sponsored workshops, was an elected member of the Board of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Advisory Panel of the National Campaign for the Arts, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and in 2005 he was made an Honorary Fellow of St Mary's University College, London. He has taught at Middlesex University and Royal Holloway University of London. Jonathan is regularly invited to talk about his work in universities and colleges, and has also travelled to America, S America and the Far East to do so. Recent broadcasting includes guest appearances on BBC Radio 4's A Good Read and sharing the bill with artist Grayson Perry on a feature about the Arthur Mee Children's Encyclopaedia.
Full CV for Jonathan Holloway
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Writing (commissioned and produced original plays and adaptations): WUTHERING
HEIGHTS BBC
Radio 3 2010 Education: Other: Lighting Designer 1976-Present, clients inc Royal Court Theatre, Royal Court Young Peoples Theatre, Leeds Playhouse, National Student Drama Festival, Free Form Arts Trust, Chat's Palace, Cochrane Theatre, Bloomsbury Theatre, Red Shift Theatre Company, The Gate Theatre. Film and Video Maker working with disadvantaged young people in urban and secure settings. |
Direction
: THE FALL OF MAN Red Shift Theatre Company, London & Edinburgh 2009 LULU E15 Acting School, Essex University 2008 THE DECORATOR Frinton Summer Festival Theatre 2008 HOW THE OTHER HALF LOVES Frinton Summer Festival Theatre 2008 CARAVAN Giffords Circus 2008 (Artistic Associate) MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Red Shift Theatre Co touring 2007 -2008 ANIMAL FARM Middlesex University 2008 GASLIGHT Frinton Summer Festival Theatre 2007 VERTIGO Red Shift Theatre Co touring 2006 - 2007 GET CARTER Red Shift touring and Ed Fest 2005-2006 THE THIRD MAN Red Shift Theatre Co touring 2004 - 2005 BARTLEBY (revival) Red Shift Theatre Co touring 2003 THE MORT D' ARTHUR Red Shift Theatre Co touring 2002 THE LOVE CHILD Red Shift Theatre Co touring 2002 NICHOLAS NICKLEBY Red Shift Theatre Co touring 2001 - 2002 NOSFERATU THE VISITOR Red Shift Theatre Co touring 2000 FIRST QUARTO HAMLET Red Shift Theatre Co touring 1999 - 2000 POOR MRS PEPYS Red Shift Theatre Co touring 1998 ASPERN PAPERS Red Shift Theatre Co touring 1998 LES MISERABLES Red Shift touring and Ed Fest 1997 NOISES OFF Brewhouse Theatre Productions 1996 BARTLEBY (festival prize) Red Shift touring and Ed Fest 1996 HANSEL AND GRETEL Lyric Theatre Hammersmith 1995 RED PRINCESS Red Shift Theatre Co touring 1995 GEORGE DANDIN Red Shift Theatre Co touring 1995 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT Red Shift Theatre Co touring 1994 LE MISANTHROPE New Rep Boston USA 1994 DEATH IN VENICE Red Shift touring and Ed Fest 1994 MACBETH (revival) Hong Kong Arts Centre 1993 MACBETH (revival) (festival prize) World Theatre Fest Santiago Chile 1993 THE HAMMER BBC Radio 3/Essential Music 1993 MACBETH Red Shift Theatre Co touring 1993 A CHRISTMAS CAROL The Microsoft Corporation 1992 ORLANDO Red Shift touring and Ed Fest 1992 THE WAY OF ALL FLESH (revival) Red Shift Theatre Co touring 1992 THE MACBETH PROJECT Red Shift site-specific Edinburgh 1991 THE HAMMER Red Shift Theatre Co touring 1991 THE LIFE AND TIMES OF FANNY HILL Red Shift/Northern Stage touring 1991 THE WAY OF ALL FLESH Red Shift/Nottinghamshire Stages 1990 PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD Lyric Theatre Belfast 1990 THE BOOK OF LAUGHTER AND FORGETTING ALRA 1990 LULU Red Shift/BAC Ed Fest and touring 1990 LOOT CSSD Embassy Theatre 1990 ROAD Red Shift YPT Ed Fest and RNT 1989 FRIDA AND DIEGO (Ed fringe first) RS/Warehouse Ed Fest and touring 1989 TIMON OF ATHENS (time out award) RS/Warehouse Ed Fest and touring 1988 LE MISANTHROPE (Ed fringe first) Red Shift/Warehouse Croydon COWBOYS Red Shift Ed Fest and touring 1988 THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST (fringe first) RS/Warehouse Ed Fest and touring 1987 THE MILL ON THE FLOSS Red Shift Ed Fest and touring 1987 SPRING AWAKENING Red Shift YPT Ed Fest and London 1987 THE DOUBLE Red Shift Theatre Co touring 1986 THE GOOD PERSON OF SETZUAN Red Shift YPT Ed Fest 1986 ROMEO AND JULIET Red Shift Ed Fest & touring 1985 - 1986 ECLIPSED Red Shadow Films (cinemas & TV) 1985 SPRING AWAKENING Bridge Lane Theatre London 1986 BROKEN ENGLISH Red Shift Ed Fest and touring 1984 X EQUALS MURDER Red Shift Ed Fest and touring 1984 THE DUCHESS OF MALFI (II) Red Shift Ed Fest and touring 1984 THE DUCHESS OF MALFI Red Shift Theatre Co touring 1983 THE MASK Red Shift Theatre Co touring 1983 FEARS AND MISERIES... THIRD REICH Elephant Theatre London 1983 PLANET X East End TG/Old Red Lion 1982 THE FATED East End Theatre Group 1981 NO PASARAN (festival prize) National Students Drama Festival 1989 SECRET IDENTITIES East End TG Chats Palace 1980 FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY Free Form Arts Trust Ltd 1978 COCKS AND HENS Warehouse Theatre Croydon 1978 BAD DREAM IN AN OLD HOTEL Theatre Upstairs Royal Court 1977 THE GOOD PERSON OF SETZUAN Assist Dir Royal Court Theatre 1977 |
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"Jonathan Holloway's brilliant production makes such sense… this brilliant tribute to a great novelist who was also a mighty campaigner for social compassion." - The Scotsman "taut and wonderfully atmospheric" - The Guardian. Critic's Choice - The Independent. Critic's Choice - Time Out. "Visual genius and superb staging... a classic triumph, a superbly adapted masterpiece and a must-see theatre production" - BBC Radio4 "Jonathan Holloway's adaptation glistened from the off and I was sorry when it ended" - The Guardian. "Bliss…*****" - The Financial Times. "a splendid production… outstanding" - The Daily Telegraph. "Holloway has developed a very idiosyncratic theatrical language which is very effective as the long applause at the end showed. It is gritty, violent and bleak, and set in a world that most of us will (thankfully) never know, and yet the presentation distances us just enough to reflect on what it has to say about people." - The British Theatre Guide "Holloway keeps it moving at such a lick that the emotional outlines emerge stark and clear, and as graphic as a streak of blood on a breezeblock wall." - The Scotsman |
Jonathan works alongside Acting General Manager Jane Hellings who is regarded as one of the country's leading cultural industries and third sector consultants and guides Red Shift's own consultancy provision.