Warner, Deborah
Warner, Deborah (b. 1959),British director. Having trained as an actress, she founded in 1980 Kick Theatre for which she mounted in tiny spaces four plays by Shakespeare. In 1987 she staged an extraordinary Titus Andronicus, poised on a knife edge between horror and farce, at the Swan theatre, Stratford, later mounting a vivid King John at The Other Place. At the National she staged King Lear with Brian Cox, her Titus, on the big Lyttelton stage; more challengingly she directed her frequent collaborator Fiona Shaw as Richard II in the smaller Cottesloe.
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