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Artist Descending A Staircase

Location: Duke of Yorks Theatre. London, and Helen Hayes Theatre, New York

Date: 1989 - 90

Artist Descending a Staircase started out as a radio play by Tom Stoppard. It hardly needed adapting at all to work as a stage play. Dan Crawford at the Kings Head persuaded me to direct it soon after the success of our Easy Virtue venture together.

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With an amazing cast, including Sarah Woodward, Frank Middlemas, John Warnaby and Peter Copley, the show was such a success that after its run at the Kings Head, it transferred to the West End where it ran for half a year. Then, thanks to Dan and Tom’s loyalty, I directed a production of it on Broadway with an American cast and an American creative team. It ran at the Helen Hayes Theatre. 

Tim Luscombe’s production is a theatrical bolt from the blue…with its romantic atmospheres…always controlled

Guardian

Tim Luscombe’s direction has an expert control

Sunday Times

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