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Timothy O'Brien Biography (1929-)

Born Timothy Brian O'Brien, March 8, 1929, in Shillong, Assam, India; son ofBrian Palliser Tiegue and Elinor Laura (Mackenzie) O'Brien. Addresses:Office--33 Lansdowne Gardens, London SW8 2EQ, England.

Nationality

English

Gender

Male

Birth Details

March 8, 1929

Shillong, Assam, India

Famous Works

• Credits; Stage Work; Scenic Designer
• The Bald Primadonna, London, 1956.
• The New Tenant, London, 1956.
• Hunter's Moon, London, 1958.
• Five Finger Exercise, London, 1958.
• The Daring Buds of May, London, 1959.
• Don't Shoot, We're English, London, 1960.
• Henry IV, Part I, London, 1961.
• Progress to the Park, London, 1961.
• The Bartered Bride, 1962.
• The Girl of the Golden West, 1962.
• Next Time I'll Sing to You, London, 1963.
• Licence to Murder, London, 1963.
• Luv, London, 1963.
• Poor Bitos, London, 1963, later New York City, 1964.
• Hedda Gabler, London, 1964.
• Entertaining Mr. Sloane, London, 1964.
• A Scent of Flowers, London, 1964.
• Waiting for Godot, London, 1964.
• Traveling Light, London, 1965.
• A Scent of Flowers, Stuttgart, Germany, 1965.
• Tango, Royal Shakespeare Company, London, and Trafalgar at Madame Tussaud's, both 1966.
• Days in the Trees, Royal Shakespeare Company, and Trafalgar at Madame Tussaud's, both 1966.
• Joey Joey, Royal Shakespeare Company, and Trafalgar at Madame Tussaud's,both 1966.
• Staircase, Royal Shakespeare Company, and Trafalgar at Madame Tussaud's,both 1966.
• All's Well That Ends Well, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1967.
• As You Like It, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1967.
• Romeo and Juliet, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1967.
• The Merry Wives of Windsor, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1968.
• Troilus and Cressida, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1968.
• The Latent Heterosexual, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1968.
• Pericles, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1969.
• Women Beware Women, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1969.
• Bartholomew Fair, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1969.
• The Knot Garden, Royal Opera, 1970.
• Measure for Measure, Royal Shakespeare Company, and Madame Tussaud's, both 1970.
• The Merchant of Venice, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1971.
• Enemies, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1971.
• The Man of Mode (with Tazeena Firth), Royal Shakespeare Company, 1971.
• La Cenerentola, Oslo, Norway, 1972.
• Lower Depths, The Island of the Mighty, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1972.
• As You Like It, OC Shakespeare Company, 1972.
• Richard II, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1973.
• Love's Labour's Lost, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1973.
• Next of Kin, National Theater of Great Britain, London, 1974.
• The Bassarids, English National Opera, 1974.
• Summerfolk, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1974.
• Pericles, Comedie Francaise, Paris, 1974.
• The Merry Wives of Windsor, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1975.
• The Marrying of Ann Leete, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1975.
• Peter Grimes, Royal Opera, London, later Goteborg, Sweden and Paris, France, all 1975.
• John Gabriel Borkman, National Theater of Great Britain, 1975.
• The Bassarids, Frankfurt, 1975.
• Wozzeck, Adelaide Festival, 1976.
• The Zykovs, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1976.
• Troilus and Cressida, National Theater of Great Britain, 1976.
• The Force of Habit, National Theater of Great Britain, 1976.
• Falstaff, Berlin Opera, 1977.
• Tales from the Vienna Woods, National Theater of Great Britain, 1977.
• Bedroom Farce, National Theater of Great Britain, 1977.
• The Cunning Little Vixen, Goteborg, Sweden, 1978.
• A Midsummer Night's Dream, Sydney Opera House, Australia, 1978.
• Evita, National Theater of Great Britain, later in Australia, Austria, both 1978, then New York, 1979.
• The Rake's Progress, Royal Opera, London, 1979.
• Peter Grimes, Goteborg, Sweden, 1979.
• Lulu, Royal Opera, London, 1981.
• La Ronde, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1982.
• A Doll's Life, New York City, 1982.
• Le Grand Macabre, English National Opera, London, 1982.
• Turandot, Vienna State Opera, 1983.
• Tannhauser, Royal Opera, London, 1984.
• The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, English National Opera, 1984.
• Tramway Road, Lyric Theatre-Hammersmith, London, 1984.
• Samson, Royal Opera, 1985.
• Sicilian Vespers, Grande Theatre, Geneva, 1985.
• Old Times, Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London, 1985.
• Lucia di Lammermoor, Koln Opera, 1985.
• The Threepenny Opera, National Theatre Company, London, 1986.
• Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Netherlands Opera, 1986.
• The American Clock, National Theatre Company, 1986.
• Otello, Royal Opera, 1987, revived 1990.
• Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Royal Opera, 1987.
• Three Sisters, Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican Center Theatre, London, 1988.
• Cymbeline, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1989.
• Exclusive, Strand Theatre, London, 1989.
• King, Piccadilly Theatre, London, 1990.
• Love's Labour's Lost, Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican Center Theatre,1991.
• Twelfth Night, Playhouse, 1991.
• Tartuffe, Playhouse, 1991.
• War and Peace, Kirov, Leningrad, Russia, 1991.
• Beauty and the Beast, City of Birmingham Touring Opera, 1991.
• Columbus and the Discovery of Japan, Royal Shakespeare Company, BarbicanCenter Theatre, 1992.
• Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera, 1993.
• Misha's Party, Royal Shakespeare Company, Pit, London, 1993.
• On Approval, Playhouse, 1994.
• The Clandestine Marriage, Queen's Theatre, London, 1994.
• The Merry Wives of Windsor, National Theatre Company, Olivier Theatre, London, then Oslo, Norway, both 1995.
• The Master Builder, Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, 1995.
• Credits; Film Work; Scenic Designer
• Night Must Fall, 1964.
• Credits; Television Work; Scenic Designer
• The Flying Dutchman, ABC, 1958.
• Credits; Exhibitions
• British Theatre Design '83-87, Riverside Studios, London, 1988.
• Writings
• (With David Fingleton) British Theatre Design '83-87, London, 1988.

Further Reference

Sources

• Contemporary Designers, third edition, St. James (Detroit, MI), 1990.