On 5-9 December 2009 the Rustaveli Theatre hosts a workshop for 15 young Georgian theatre directors as part of a partnership project between itself and the UK's famous National Theatre. The partnership has been facilitated by the British Council and supported by BP and HSBC Bank Georgia.
James Macdonald has been invited to facilitate the workshop. He has successfully collaborated with the National Theatre for many years.
James Macdonald was an Associate Director of the Royal Court from 1992 - 2006, where he has directed Cock, Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?, Dying City, Fewer Emergencies, Lucky Dog, Blood, Blasted, 4.48 Psychosis (including European/US tours), Hard Fruit, Real Classy Affair, Cleansed, Bailegangaire, Harry and Me, The Changing Room, Simpatico, Blasted, Peaches, Thyestes, The Terrible Voice of Satan, Hammett's Apprentice and Putting Two and Two Together. Other theatre includes Dido, Queen of Carthage, The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other and Exiles at the National; Judgment Day and The Triumph of Love at the Almeida; Top Girls for MTC on Broadway; Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? at the Public Theater; Glengarry Glen Ross in the West End; Dying City at the Lincoln Center; A Number for New York Theatre Workshop; Troilus und Cressida and Die Kopien at Berlin Schaubühne; 4.48 Psychose at Vienna Burgtheater; The Tempest and Roberto Zucco at the RSC; Love's Labour's Lost and Richard II at Manchester Royal Exchange; The Rivals at Nottingham Playhouse; The Crackwalker at The Gate; The Seagull at Sheffield Crucible; Miss Julie at Oldham Coliseum; Juno and the Paycock, Ice Cream and Hot Fudge, Romeo and Juliet, Fool for Love, Savage/Love and Master Harold and the Boys at Contact Theatre, Manchester; Prem at the BAC and Soho Poly. Opera includes Eugene Onegin and Rigoletto for WNO; Die Zauberflöte for Garsington; Wolf Club Village and Night Banquet for Almeida Opera); Oedipus Rex and Survivor from Warsaw at Royal Exchange/Hallé; Lives of the Great Poisoners for Second Stride. Last year he filmed A Number for HBO/BBC.
In Tbilisi, James Macdonald will lead a 5-day workshop, which will explore the directing of new plays, with particular reference to A NUMBER by Caryl Churchil and 4:48 PSYCHOSIS by Sarah Kane.
The aim of the Theatre Partnership Project is to help develop capacity in the theatre sector in Georgia by working with emerging directors, promoting new writing and engaging audiences in new work.
