Duncan C Weldon, Esq's Biography

Duncan C Weldon, Esq's Professional Career

Career

theatrical producer, formerly photographer; co-fndr Triumph Theatre Productions Ltd 1970; dir: Duncan C Weldon Productions Ltd, Triumph Proscenium Productions Ltd, Malvern Festival Theatre Trust Ltd; artistic dir Chichester Festival Theatre 1995-97; co-fndr Triumph Entertainment Ltd 2000; first stage prodn A Funny Kind of Evening (with David Kossoff, Theatre Royal Bath) 1965, first London prodn Tons of Money (Mayfair) 1968, presentations also in Europe, Aust, Russia, Canada and Hong Kong; Theatre Productions has presented over 200 in London incl in 1970: When We Are Married; in 1971: The Chalk Garden, Big Bad Mouse, The Wizard of Oz; in 1972: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, Bunny, The Wizard of Oz; in 1973: Mother Adam, Grease, The King and I; in 1974: Dead Easy; in 1975: The Case in Question, Hedda Gabler (RSC), Dad's Army, Betzi, On Approval; in 1976: 13 Rue de l'Amour, A Bedful of Foreigners, Three Sisters, Fringe Benefits, The Seagull, The Circle; in 1977: Separate Tables, Stevie, Hedda Gabler, On Approval, The Good Woman of Setzuan, Rosmersholm, Laburnham Grove, The Apple Cart; in 1978: Waters of the Moon, Kings and Clowns, The Travelling Music Show, A Family, Look After Lulu, The Millionairess; in 1979: The Crucifer of Blood; in 1980: Reflections, Rattle of a Simple Man, The Last of Mrs Cheyney, Early Days (RNT); in 1981: Virginia, Overheard, Dave Allen, Worzel Gummidge; in 1982: Murder in Mind, Hobson's Choice, A Coat of Varnish, Captain Brassbound's Conversion, Design For Living, Uncle Vanya, Key for Two, The Rules of the Game, Man and Superman; in 1983: The School for Scandal, Dash, Heartbreak House, Call Me Madam, Romantic Comedy, Liza Minnelli, Beethoven's Tenth (also Broadway), Edmund Kean (also Broadway), Fiddler on the Roof, A Patriot for Me (also LA), Cowardice, Great and Small, The Cherry Orchard, Dial M for Murder, Dear Anyone, The Sleeping Prince, The School for Scandal, Hi-De-Hi!; in 1984: Hello Dolly!, The Aspern Papers, Strange Interlude (also Broadway), Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, Aren't We All? (also Broadway), American Buffalo, The Way of the World, Extremities; in 1985: The Wind in the Willows, The Lonely Road, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Other Places, Old Times (also in LA), The Corn is Green, Waste (RSC), Strippers, Guys and Dolls (RNT), Sweet Bird of Youth, Interpreters, Fatal Attraction, The Scarlet Pimpernel; in 1986: The Applecart, Across from the Garden of Allah, Antony and Cleopatra, The Taming of the Shrew, Circe & Bravo, Annie Get Your Gun, Long Day's Journey into Night, Rookery Nook, Breaking the Code (also Broadway), Mr and Mrs Nobody; in 1987: A Piece of My Mind, Court in the Act!, Canaries Sometimes Sing, Kiss Me Kate (RSC), Melon, Portraits, Groucho - A Life in Review, A Man for all Seasons, You Never Can Tell, Babes in the Wood; in 1988: A Touch of the Poet, The Deep Blue Sea, The Admirable Crichton, The Secret of Sherlock Holmes, A Walk in the Woods, Orpheus Descending (also Broadway), Richard II; in 1989: Richard III, The Royal Baccarat Scandal, Ivanov, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice (also Broadway), Frankie & Johnny, Veterans Day, Another Time, The Baker's Wife, London Assurance; in 1990: Salome (RNT), Bent (RNT), An Evening with Peter Ustinov, The Wild Duck, Henry IV, Kean, Love Letters, Time and the Conways; in 1991: The Homecoming, The Philanthropist, The Caretaker, Becket, Tovarich, The Cabinet Minister; in 1992: Talking Heads, Heartbreak House, Hamlet, A Woman of No Importance (RSC), Lost in Yonkers, Trelawny of the Wells, Cyrano de Bergerac; in 1993: Macbeth (RSC), Relative Values, Two Gentlemen of Verona (RSC); in 1994: Travesties (RSC), A Month in the Country (also Broadway), The Clandestine Marriage, Peer Gynt, Rope, An Evening with Peter Ustinov, Arcadia (RNT), Home, Saint Joan, Lady Windermere's Fan, The Rivals; in 1995: Dangerous Corner, Cell Mates, The Duchess of Malfi, Taking Sides (also Broadway), Old Times, Communicating Doors, Hobson's Choice, The Hothouse; in 1996: Uncle Vanya, When We Are Married, Talking Heads, The Cherry Orchard (RSC); in 1997: Live & Kidding, The Herbal Bed (RSC), Life Support, A Letter of Resignation, Electra (also Broadway), The Magistrate; in 1998: Rent, New Edna - The Spectacle; in 1999: Richard III (RSC), The Prisoner of Second Avenue, Hay Fever, Love letters, The Importance of Being Earnest, Collected Stories; in 2000: Enigmatic Variations (also Los Angeles), Napoleon, God Only Knows, The Importance of Being Earnest (extensive tour); in 2001: The Importance of Being Earnest (Savoy Theatre London), Peggy Sue Got Married, Private Lives (also Broadway); in 2002: My One and Only, The Hollow Crown (RSC, Aust and NZ); in 2003: The Tempest, Coriolanus (RSC), The Merry Wives of Windsor (RSC), The Master Builder, Thoroughly Modern Millie; in 2004: Rattle of a Simple Man, Suddenly Last Summer, Blithe Spirit; in 2005: The Birthday Party, The Philadelphia Story, As You Desire Me; in 2007: The Last Confession, Macbeth (also Broadway), Nicholas Nickleby; in 2009: Waiting for Godot, Taking Sides, Collaboration; in 2010: Private Lives (also Broadway), When We Are Married, Blithe Spirit; in 2011: Pygmalion, Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Tempest, The Lion in the Winter; other Broadway prodns incl: Brief Lives 1974, Wild Honey (NT) 1986, Blithe Spirit and Pygmalion 1987; Television Productions co-prodr (with Carlton TV) Into the Blue (by Robert Goddard and starring John Thaw) 1997

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