Rupert Doone
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Rupert Doone (1903-1966), English dancer, choreographer, theatre director, and teacher.
Rupert Doone began his career as a dancer, and in 1925 was the last premier danseur engaged by Diaghilev for the Ballets Russes. From 1926 until his death he lived with the painter Robert Medley and together they founded in 1932 the Group Theatre (London) which performed left-wing and avant-garde plays during the 1930s and again during its revival in the early 1950s.
Despite his prominence in avant-garde theatre, Doone was a muddled and ineffective stage director, much disliked by W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and others who tried to steer the Group Theatre into more effective productions and organization.
In the 1950s he founded the Theatre School at Morley College and worked there until his premature retirement as a result of multiple sclerosis.
[edit] References
- Michael J. Sidnell (1984). Dances of Death: The Group Theatre of London in the Thirties. Faber.
- Robert Medley (1983). Drawn from the Life: A Memoir. Faber.
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