Michael Billington, a theater critic for The Guardian, had criticized the outgoing director, Adrian Noble, for “attempting to create a revolution within the R.S.C.
Mr. Boyd, The Guardian said in summarizing his decade of leadership, presided “over a spectacular financial and architectural turnaround.”In announcing in 2011 that he was stepping away, he said the job had begun to wear on him.
He continued to direct notable productions, including “Tamburlaine, Parts I and II,” the Christopher Marlowe classic, for Theater for a New Audience in New York in 2014.
It’s a bloody tale from 1587 about the warrior Tamburlaine, and Mr. Boyd didn’t hold back; the show used 144 gallons of stage blood a week.
For one effect, blood was pumped from beneath the stage so that it would creep up the skirt of a particular character.
Persons:
Michael Billington, Adrian Noble, ” Mr, Boyd, “ I’ve, ”, “, Christopher Marlowe, Boyd didn’t
Organizations:
Barbican Center, The Guardian, Armory, Guardian, Birmingham Evening, Theater
Locations:
London, Stratford, Avon, Manhattan, New York