Ronald Hayman
Ronald Hayman | |
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| Born | 4 May 1932 Bournemouth,England |
| Died | 20 January 2019(aged 86) |
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| Nationality | British |
Higham Ronald Hayman(4 May 1932 – 20 January 2019) was a British critic, dramatist, and writer who was best known as a biographer.
Biography
[edit]Early life
[edit]Ronald Hayman was born on May 4, 1932, in East Cliff Hotel inBournemouth,England,a Jewish hotel which had been founded by his grandmother, Anne Morris. His mother, Sadie, was an administrator at the hotel while his father, John, was in a partnership running an antiques and jewellery business.[1]He was educated atSt Paul's Schoolin London and atTrinity Hall, Cambridge,where he earned a B.A. in 1954 and an M.A. in 1963. He served in theRoyal Air Forcefor a one-year duty, from 1950 to 1951.
After reading English at Cambridge in 1954, Hayman lived in Germany for two years, mainly to write. He became involved in professional theatre after playing the lead inLove's Labour's Lostwith English amateurs in Berlin. He then attended drama school and acted for three years in rep and on television.
Writing career
[edit]His first play,The End of an Uncle,was staged atWimbledonin 1959. He made his debut as a director withJean Genet'sDeathwatchat theArts Theatrein 1960 and in 1961 was awarded anABC Televisiontraineeship, which took him to Northampton for a year as assistant producer. He also directedBertolt Brecht'sIn the Jungle of Citiesand a stage adaptation ofRobin Maugham'sThe Servant.Hayman directed atTheatre Royal Stratford East,Farnham,theEdinburgh Festival,Yvonne Arnaud Theatre,andGuildford,and forOpen Space.His one-man show withMax AdrianasGeorge Bernard Shawtransferred to theWest Endand went on a world tour.[2]
He was a regular contributor to the Arts page ofThe Timesand to theNew Review.He broadcast on arts programmes and lectured for theUniversity of LondonDepartment of English Literature. In the 1970s, he lectured on Shakespeare and the traditions of English acting for theTufts Universityof London program.[3]
His 1995 playPlaying the Wifeis based onAugust Strindberg's second marriage to theAustrianFrida Uhl.
Works
[edit]- John Arden(1968)
- John Osborne(1968)
- Techniques of Acting(1969)
- Robert Bolt(1969)
- Arnold Wesker(1970)
- Harold Pinter(1970)
- Samuel Beckett(1970)
- John Whiting(1970)
- Tolstoy(1970)
- John Gielgud(1971)
- Edward Albee(1971)
- Arguing withWalt Whitman:An Essay on His Influence on Twentieth-Century American Verse(1971)
- Arthur Miller(1972)
- Playback(1973)
- The Set-up: An Anatomy of the English Theatre Today(1973)
- Playback II(1973)
- The First Thrust: theChichester Festival Theatre(1975)
- Leavis(1976)
- Eugène Ionesco(1976)
- The Novel Today, 1967-1975(1976)
- Tom Stoppard(1977)
- How to Read a Play(1977)
- Artaudand After(1977)
- De Sade:A Critical Biography(1978)
- British Theatre since 1955: A Reassessment(1979)
- Theatre and Anti-Theatre: New Movements Since Beckett(1979)
- Nietzsche:A Critical Life(1980)
- Franz Kafka(1982)
- Brecht(1983)
- Bertolt Brecht: The Plays(1984)
- Fassbinder:Film Maker(1984)
- Gunter Grass(1985)
- Secrets: Boyhood in a Jewish Hotel, 1932-1954(1985)
- Writing Against: A Biography ofSartre(1986)
- My Cambridge(1986) editor
- Sartre: A Life(1987)
- Proust:A Biography(1990)
- The Death and Life ofSylvia Plath(1992)
- Tennessee Williams:Everyone Else is an Audience(1993)
- Thomas Mann(1995)
- Nietzsche(1997)
- HitlerandGeli(1998)
- A Life ofJung(2001)
- Marquis De Sade: The Genius of Passion(2003)
References
[edit]- ^"Ronald Hayman obituary".The Times.1 March 2019.Retrieved1 March2019.(subscription required)
- ^The Tufts in London 9 Faculty,handout, Tufts University, 1973.
- ^Concise Encyclopedia of Tufts History,Document ID tufts:central:dca:UA069:UA069.005.DO.00001, 2004.
