{"id":630,"date":"2025-06-29T13:44:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T13:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/?page_id=630"},"modified":"2026-01-19T15:54:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:54:35","slug":"directing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/?page_id=630","title":{"rendered":"Director"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Paul was Associate Director of English Pocket Opera Company (2012-2020), directing productions of Bartok&#8217;s &#8220;Bluebeard&#8217;s Castle&#8221; and Verdi&#8217;s &#8220;Macbeth&#8221; at Central St. Martins, working with their student designers. <br>He devised and led the touring workshop productions &#8220;Opera Quest&#8221; and &#8220;The History Of Western Classical Music (Part 1)&#8221; as well as a project on Humperdinck&#8217;s &#8220;Hansel &amp; Gretel&#8221; in schools in the London borough of Brent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He directed Mozart&#8217;s &#8220;Cosi fan tutte&#8221; for Pimlico Opera&#8217;s 2001 UK tour (including the Royal Opera&#8217;s Linbury Studio),<br>Krenek&#8217;s &#8220;Jonny Strikes Up&#8221; for Music Theatre Scotland as part of the 1990 Glasgow Jazz Festival and European City of Culture programme,<br>Menotti&#8217;s &#8220;The Consul&#8221;, Rimsky-Korsakov&#8217;s &#8220;Mozart &amp; Salieri&#8217; and Menotti&#8217;s &#8220;The Medium&#8221; &amp; &#8220;The Telephone&#8221; for the Glasgow Opera Group,<br>Peter Shaffer&#8217;s &#8220;Amadeus&#8221; for the Kilmardinny Theatre Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the University of Glasgow, he was President of the Student Theatre Group and directed productions of Edward Bond&#8217;s &#8220;Lear&#8221; and Joe Orton&#8217;s &#8220;The Ruffian On The Stair&#8221;. <br>For the Great Western Theatre Company, he directed Georg Buchner&#8217;s &#8220;Woyzeck&#8221;, Edward Bond&#8217;s &#8220;Lear&#8221; and Beaumarchais&#8217; &#8220;The Barber Of Seville&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also worked as an Assistant Director at Scottish Opera and the Glasgow Citizens Theatre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul was Associate Director of English Pocket Opera Company (2012-2020), directing productions of Bartok&#8217;s &#8220;Bluebeard&#8217;s Castle&#8221; and Verdi&#8217;s &#8220;Macbeth&#8221; at Central St. Martins, working with their student designers. He devised and led the touring workshop productions &#8220;Opera Quest&#8221; and &#8220;The History Of Western Classical Music (Part 1)&#8221; as well as a project on Humperdinck&#8217;s &#8220;Hansel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-630","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"https:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/630\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}