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Stephen MacDonald
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Born
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1933-05-05
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5 May 1933
Birmingham, England
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Died
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(2009-08-12)
(aged 76)
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Occupation
| Actor
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Stephen MacDonald
(5 May 1933 – 12 August 2009) was a British actor, director and dramatist.
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MacDonald was brought up and educated in
Birmingham
, where he trained as an actor, but subsequently worked extensively in Scotland as a theatre director.
As a writer, MacDonald is best known for his 1983 play,
Not About Heroes
,
[2]
which concerns the relationship between
World War I
poets
Siegfried Sassoon
and
Wilfred Owen
, and has been produced internationally including an
Off-Broadway
run with
Edward Herrmann
and a run at the
National Theatre
,
London
, where MacDonald played Sassoon.
In 1971 he began his directorial career, at Leicester Phoenix Theatre. He was instrumental in turning around the fortunes of the
Dundee Repertory Theatre
in 1972, where as artistic director he mounted 11 new plays by Scottish authors, including
Ian Brown
,
Stewart Conn
,
Tom Gallacher
,
John McGrath
and Hector MacMillan.
[1]
After this post he became artistic director of the
Royal Lyceum Theatre
in
Edinburgh
. As he had at Dundee, he promoted drama that looked afresh at historical events.
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