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| birth_place = [[Basel, Switzerland |
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| nationality = Australian |
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| occupation = Director, actor, writer |
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'''Simon Stone''' (born August |
'''Simon Stone''' (born 19 August 1984) is an Australian film and theatre director, writer and actor. |
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==Early life== |
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⚫ | Stone is Australian, but was born in Basel and grew up in Cambridge and Melbourne.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.muenchner-kammerspiele.de/en/profile/simon-stone|title=Simon Stone Direction|access-date=2018-06-18|publisher=[[Munich Kammerspiele]]}}</ref> His father, Stuart Stone, was a biochemist and his mother, Eleanor Mackie, a veterinary scientist. Stuart Stone died of a heart attack aged 45; Stone, aged 12, witnessed it, and has spoken about the ways in which that trauma has influenced his work.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/theatre/a-theatre-man-in-a-hurry-20110215-1augh.html|title=A theatre man in a hurry|last=Blake|first=Elissa|date=2011-02-15|website=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]|access-date=2018-06-19}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2012/may/1339649879/benjamin-law/hurtling-stone|title=Hurtling Stone|date=2012-05-03|work=[[The Monthly]]|access-date=2018-06-19}}</ref> |
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===Early life=== |
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⚫ | Stone is Australian, but was born in |
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==Career== |
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===Hayloft Project, 2007-9=== |
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===Director/writer=== |
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⚫ | In 2007 Stone founded the independent theatre company The Hayloft Project and adapted and directed their inaugural production of [[Frank Wedekind]]'s ''[[Spring Awakening (play)|Spring Awakening]]''. This production was remounted in 2008 at [[Belvoir St Theatre]] and was described in ''[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]'' as "a lean, contained, ultimately furious, liberating production that is well-attuned to Wedekind's poetic rhythms, wit and pubescent discoveries".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/spring-awakening-20080630-gdsk79.html|title=''Spring Awakening''|first=Bryce|last=Hallett|type=review|date=30 June 2008|website=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]}}</ref> Other productions Stone adapted and directed for The Hayloft Project include [[Platonov (play)|''Platonov'']], ''[[Three Sisters (play)|3xSisters]]'', [[The Suicide (play)|''The Suicide'']] and ''The Only Child'', a new version of [[Henrik Ibsen]]'s ''[[Little Eyolf]]'' which won the [[Sydney Theatre Awards|Sydney Theatre Award]] for Best Independent Production.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sydneytheatreawards.com/history/2009|title=2009 Sydney Theatre Awards|publisher=[[Sydney Theatre Awards]]}}</ref> |
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⚫ | In 2009 he directed [[Aleksei Arbuzov]]'s ''The Promise'' for [[Belvoir (theatre company)|Belvoir]]. In 2010 he directed and co-wrote with [[Mark Leonard Winter]], [[Thomas Henning (artist)|Thomas Henning]] and Chris Ryan a version of [[Seneca the Younger|Seneca]]'s ''[[Thyestes (Seneca)|Thyestes]]'' for The Hayloft Project and [[Malthouse Theatre]], Melbourne. He directed ''[[The Cherry Orchard]]'' for [[Melbourne Theatre Company]] in 2013.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mtc.com.au/about/the-company/archive/2013-mainstage/the-cherry-orchard/|title=''The Cherry Orchard''|publisher=[[Melbourne Theatre Company]]|access-date=2018-06-19}}</ref> |
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⚫ | In 2007 Stone founded the independent theatre company The Hayloft Project and adapted and directed their inaugural production of [[Frank Wedekind]]'s ''[[ |
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⚫ | In 2011 Stone became the resident director at Belvoir. In his first year he wrote and directed ''[[The Wild Duck]]'', after [[Henrik Ibsen]], which has become his calling card production and has played internationally, including at the [[Holland Festival]]. In 2011 he also directed [[Robyn Nevin]] in [[Lally Katz]]'s ''Neighbourhood Watch'' for Belvoir and adapted and directed [[Bertolt Brecht]]'s [[Baal (play)|''Baal'']] for the [[Sydney Theatre Company]].<ref name=":0"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/australia-culture-blog/2013/aug/09/simon-stone-theatre-director|title=When Simon Stone speaks, Australian theatre listens|last=Croggon|first=Alison|author-link=Alison Croggon|date=2013-08-09|website=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=2018-06-19}}</ref> |
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===Early work in Australia, 2009-13=== |
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[[File:Ibsen House (programmaboekje).pdf|thumb|Brochure for ''Ibsen House'' (in Dutch), made with [[Internationaal Theater Amsterdam]], staged in [[deSingel]] in Antwerp (2019)]] |
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⚫ | In 2009 he directed [[Aleksei Arbuzov]]'s ''The Promise'' for [[Belvoir (theatre company)|Belvoir]]. In 2010 he directed and co-wrote with [[Mark Leonard Winter]], Thomas Henning and Chris Ryan a version of [[Seneca the Younger|Seneca]]'s [[Thyestes]] for The Hayloft Project and [[Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne |
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⚫ | For [[Theater Basel]], where he was a house director from 2015, he has directed ''[[Angels in America]]'', ''[[John Gabriel Borkman]]'' (for which he won the 2015 [[Nestroy Theatre Prize]]), ''[[Three Sisters (play)|Three Sisters]]'', and Korngold's opera ''[[Die tote Stadt]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://operabase.com/a/Simon_Stone|title=Simon Stone, director|website=[[Operabase]]|access-date=2018-06-19}}</ref> A companion project with the works of [[August Strindberg]], ''Hotel Strindberg'', premiered at [[Theater Basel]] in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|title=''Hotel Strindberg''|url=https://www.burgtheater.at/de/spielplan/produktionen/hotel-strindberg/termine/2018-02-02/973197119/|access-date=2018-06-19|website=[[Burgtheater]]|language=de}}</ref> |
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For [[Ivo van Hove]]'s company [[Internationaal Theater Amsterdam]], he has directed Euripides' ''[[Medea (play)|Medea]]'' in his own new adaptation, ''[[Husbands and Wives]]'', ''Ibsen House'', a new play by Stone which threads together the plots of several of Ibsen's plays in a new modern scenario, and ''Flight 49'', inspired by the novel ''[[Op Hoop van Zegen]]'' by [[Herman Heijermans]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Simon Stone|url=https://ita.nl/nl/personen/simon-stone/2128/|access-date=2020-09-23|website=Internationaal Theater Amsterdam|language=nl}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=''Flight 49''|url=https://ita.nl/nl/voorstellingen/flight-49/886966/|access-date=2020-09-23|website=Internationaal Theater Amsterdam|language=nl}}</ref> |
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⚫ | In 2011 Stone became the |
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⚫ | In 2016, Stone premiered an adaptation of [[Federico García Lorca]]'s ''[[Yerma]]'' at the [[Young Vic]] in London. The production starred [[Billie Piper]] in the title role,<ref>{{Cite web |title=''Yerma'' Review Young Vic |url=http://www.theatresmart.com/yerma-review-young-vic.html |publisher=TheatreSmart |date=2016 |access-date=26 July 2017}}</ref> and was well reviewed,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Clapp|first=Susannah|author-link=Susannah Clapp|date=7 August 2016 |title=''Yerma'' Five-Star Review – Billie Piper Is Earth-Quaking as Lorca's Heroine |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/aug/07/yerma-review-young-vic-billie-piper-simon-stone |work=[[The Observer]] |location=London |access-date=26 July 2017}}</ref> returning for a second run in 2017 before transferring to the [[Park Avenue Armory]] in New York in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.armoryonpark.org/index.php/programs_events/detail/yerma|title=''Yerma'' : Program & Events|website=[[Park Avenue Armory]]}}</ref> It won the [[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival]] in 2017. |
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===European work, 2015-18=== |
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Stone is one of the most acclaimed theatre directors on the international circuit, working with several of the most significant companies in European Theatre. |
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Stone directed [[Luigi Cherubini]]'s opera ''[[Médée (Cherubini)|Médée]]'' at the 2019 [[Salzburg Festival]],<ref>[https://www.salzburgerfestspiele.at/en/p/medee "''Médée''], [[Salzburg Festival]] 2019</ref> returning there in 2023 for [[Bohuslav Martinů|Martinů]]'s ''[[The Greek Passion (opera)|The Greek Passion]]'' sung in English.<ref>Allison, John. Report from Salzburg. ''Opera'', October 2023, Vol.74, No.10, p1192-4.</ref> |
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For [[Theater Basel]], where he was a house director from 2015, he has directed [[Angels in America]], [[John Gabriel Borkman]], [[Three Sisters (play)|Three Sisters]] and the opera [[die tote Stadt]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://operabase.com/a/Simon_Stone|title=Simon Stone, director|website=operabase.com|access-date=2018-06-19}}</ref> |
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He took his production of Euripides' ''Medea'', with [[Rose Byrne]] and [[Bobby Cannavale]], to the [[Brooklyn Academy of Music]] in 2020.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/01/theater/simon-stone-medea-bam.html|title=Simon Stone Faced the Unthinkable. He Thinks You Should Too.|author=Alexis Soloski|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=1 January 2020|access-date=12 August 2022}}</ref> He made his debut at the [[Metropolitan Opera]] in New York in 2022 with Donizetti's ''[[Lucia di Lammermoor]]'', set in present-day America's [[Rust Belt]].<ref>[https://www.metopera.org/discover/articles/fading-dreams/ "Fading Dreams"], interview by Matt Dobkin, [[Metropolitan Opera]]</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/24/arts/music/lucia-di-lammermoor-met-opera.html|title=Review: In ''Lucia'' at the Met, a Modern Woman Comes Undone|author=[[Zachary Woolfe]]|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=24 April 2022|access-date=12 August 2022}}</ref> |
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His updated adaptation of ''[[Phaedra (Seneca)|Phaedra]]'' was produced at the [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] February to April 2023; the company included [[Mackenzie Davis]], [[Assaad Bouab]] and [[Janet McTeer]]. |
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⚫ | Stone has acted in the television series ''[[John Safran's Music Jamboree]]'', ''[[MDA (TV series)|MDA]]'', ''[[Blue Heelers]]'', ''[[Rush (2008 TV series)|Rush]]'', ''[[City Homicide]]'', and the films ''[[Jindabyne (film)|Jindabyne]]'', ''[[Kokoda (film)|Kokoda]]'', ''[[Balibo (film)|Balibo]]'', ''[[Blame (2010 film)|Blame]]'', and ''[[The Eye of the Storm (2011 film)|The Eye of the Storm]]''.<ref>{{IMDb name|nm1404307|Simon Stone}}</ref> |
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⚫ | In 2016, Stone premiered an adaptation of [[Federico García Lorca]]'s ''[[Yerma]]'' at the [[Young Vic]] in |
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===Acting work=== |
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⚫ | Stone has acted in the television series ''[[John Safran's Music Jamboree]]'', ''[[MDA (TV series)|MDA]]'', ''[[Blue Heelers]]'', ''[[Rush (2008 TV series)|Rush]]'', ''[[City Homicide]]'', and the films ''[[Jindabyne (film)|Jindabyne]]'', ''[[Kokoda (film)|Kokoda]]'', ''[[Balibo (film)|Balibo]]'', ''[[Blame (2010 film)|Blame]]'', and ''[[The Eye of the Storm (2011 film)|The Eye of the Storm]]''.<ref>{{ |
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===Film=== |
===Film=== |
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Stone's directorial debut film [[The Daughter (2015 film)|''The Daughter'']] premiered at the [[2015 Toronto International Film Festival]] and was released in Australia on 17 March 2016. |
Stone's directorial debut film [[The Daughter (2015 film)|''The Daughter'']] premiered at the [[2015 Toronto International Film Festival]] and was released in Australia on 17 March 2016 and he won Best Adapted Screenplay at the [[AACTA Awards]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aacta.org/aacta-awards/past-awards/6th-aacta-awards/|title=AACTA AWARDS |website=aacta.org|access-date=2018-12-06}}</ref> |
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He directed the British drama film ''[[The Dig (2021 film)|The Dig]]'' in 2021.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Kenny|first=Glenn|date=2021-01-28|title='The Dig' Review: Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes on a Treasure Hunt|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/movies/the-dig-review.html|access-date=2021-01-30|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> It focuses on an [[archaeology|archaeological]] dig in [[Sutton Hoo]] in 1939. |
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==Personal life== |
==Personal life== |
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Stone married Jessamy Dyer in 2004<ref name=":0" /> though the marriage ended in divorce. He has since married again. |
Stone married Jessamy Dyer in 2004<ref name=":0" /> though the marriage ended in divorce. He has since married again. His current wife is Stefanie Hackl, a dramaturg.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-01-21 |title=Director Simon Stone: 'My heroes are women' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/jan/21/director-simon-stone-my-heroes-are-women-phaedra-janet-mcteer-national-theatre-billie-piper-yerma |access-date=2023-01-21 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref> |
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==Philosophy== |
==Philosophy== |
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Stone likes to take pieces from the standard theatre canon which, with the help of his cast, he reworks into intimate, almost cinematic performances. He often works from improvisation creating an entirely new script through which the original play nevertheless shines. This practice is sometimes referred to as "over-writing".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tga.nl/en/employees/simon-stone |
Stone likes to take pieces from the standard theatre [[Western canon|canon]] which, with the help of his cast, he reworks into intimate, almost cinematic performances. He often works from [[Improvisational theatre|improvisation]] creating an entirely new script through which the original play nevertheless shines. This practice is sometimes referred to as "over-writing".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Simon Stone|url=https://tga.nl/en/employees/simon-stone|access-date=2018-06-19|website=tga.nl}}</ref> |
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⚫ | Stone believes in theatre as a place for polemic: "One can't make theatre based on fear and compromises. Without argument, there is no art."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.festival-avignon.com/en/artist/2017/simon-stone|title=Simon Stone |
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⚫ | Stone believes in theatre as a place for polemic: "One can't make theatre based on fear and compromises. Without argument, there is no art."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.festival-avignon.com/en/artist/2017/simon-stone|title=Simon Stone|publisher=[[Festival d'Avignon]]|language=fr|access-date=2018-06-19}}</ref> |
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⚫ | Yet, at the same time, he acknowledges that his own art has its roots in finding a language for the trauma of his father's death. "I certainly couldn't talk to people about what had happened to me. Especially at a young age, people are very confronted by 'how on earth do I even talk about that absurdly dark thing that happened to Simon?'. Of course, in cinema and literature, you find conversation partners. They're not talking back but they kind of are because they're telling you you're not the only person who's been through that thing."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/the-daughter-how-tragedy-turned-simon-stone-into-one-of-our-most-promising-directors-20160217-gmwggi.html|title=The Daughter: how tragedy turned Simon Stone into one of our most promising directors|last=Maddox|first=Garry|date=2016-03-09|website=The Sydney Morning Herald |
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⚫ | Yet, at the same time, he acknowledges that his own art has its roots in finding a language for the trauma of his father's death. "I certainly couldn't talk to people about what had happened to me. Especially at a young age, people are very confronted by 'how on earth do I even talk about that absurdly dark thing that happened to Simon?'. Of course, in cinema and literature, you find conversation partners. They're not talking back but they kind of are because they're telling you you're not the only person who's been through that thing."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/the-daughter-how-tragedy-turned-simon-stone-into-one-of-our-most-promising-directors-20160217-gmwggi.html|title=The Daughter: how tragedy turned Simon Stone into one of our most promising directors|last=Maddox|first=Garry|date=2016-03-09|website=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]|access-date=2018-06-19}}</ref> |
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==Interviews== |
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http://www.artshub.com.au/au/news-article/news/museums-and-libraries/career-profile-simon-stone-171896<br /> |
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http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/theatre/a-theatre-man-in-a-hurry-20110215-1augh.html<br /> |
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http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/theatre/stones-hit-and-myth-20100913-1597t.html<br /> |
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http://www.au.timeout.com/sydney/theatre/features/9512/simon-stone<br /> |
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https://archive.is/20130204020748/http://www.thebrag.com/2011/02/14/interview-simon-stone-the-wild-duck/<br /> |
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/explorations-into-the-dark-side/story-e6frg8n6-1226031552593<br /> |
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https://web.archive.org/web/20130429075742/http://www.thebrag.com/2011/05/16/feature-baal/ |
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![]() Receiving the Nestroy Theatre Prize 2015 | |
Born | Basel, Switzerland | 19 August 1984
Nationality | Australian |
Occupation(s) | Director, actor, writer |
Years active | 2002–present |
Simon Stone (born 19 August 1984) is an Australian film and theatre director, writer and actor.
Early life
[edit]Stone is Australian, but was born in Basel and grew up in Cambridge and Melbourne.[1] His father, Stuart Stone, was a biochemist and his mother, Eleanor Mackie, a veterinary scientist. Stuart Stone died of a heart attack aged 45; Stone, aged 12, witnessed it, and has spoken about the ways in which that trauma has influenced his work.[2][3]
Career
[edit]Director/writer
[edit]In 2007 Stone founded the independent theatre company The Hayloft Project and adapted and directed their inaugural production of Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening. This production was remounted in 2008 at Belvoir St Theatre and was described in The Sydney Morning Herald as "a lean, contained, ultimately furious, liberating production that is well-attuned to Wedekind's poetic rhythms, wit and pubescent discoveries".[4] Other productions Stone adapted and directed for The Hayloft Project include Platonov, 3xSisters, The Suicide and The Only Child, a new version of Henrik Ibsen's Little Eyolf which won the Sydney Theatre Award for Best Independent Production.[5]
In 2009 he directed Aleksei Arbuzov's The Promise for Belvoir. In 2010 he directed and co-wrote with Mark Leonard Winter, Thomas Henning and Chris Ryan a version of Seneca's Thyestes for The Hayloft Project and Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne. He directed The Cherry Orchard for Melbourne Theatre Company in 2013.[6]
In 2011 Stone became the resident director at Belvoir. In his first year he wrote and directed The Wild Duck, after Henrik Ibsen, which has become his calling card production and has played internationally, including at the Holland Festival. In 2011 he also directed Robyn Nevin in Lally Katz's Neighbourhood Watch for Belvoir and adapted and directed Bertolt Brecht's Baal for the Sydney Theatre Company.[2][7]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Ibsen_House_%28programmaboekje%29.pdf/page1-220px-Ibsen_House_%28programmaboekje%29.pdf.jpg)
For Theater Basel, where he was a house director from 2015, he has directed Angels in America, John Gabriel Borkman (for which he won the 2015 Nestroy Theatre Prize), Three Sisters, and Korngold's opera Die tote Stadt.[8] A companion project with the works of August Strindberg, Hotel Strindberg, premiered at Theater Basel in 2018.[9]
For Ivo van Hove's company Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, he has directed Euripides' Medea in his own new adaptation, Husbands and Wives, Ibsen House, a new play by Stone which threads together the plots of several of Ibsen's plays in a new modern scenario, and Flight 49, inspired by the novel Op Hoop van Zegen by Herman Heijermans.[10][11]
In 2016, Stone premiered an adaptation of Federico García Lorca's Yerma at the Young Vic in London. The production starred Billie Piper in the title role,[12] and was well reviewed,[13] returning for a second run in 2017 before transferring to the Park Avenue Armory in New York in 2018.[14] It won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival in 2017.
Stone directed Luigi Cherubini's opera Médée at the 2019 Salzburg Festival,[15] returning there in 2023 for Martinů's The Greek Passion sung in English.[16] He took his production of Euripides' Medea, with Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale, to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2020.[17] He made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 2022 with Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, set in present-day America's Rust Belt.[18][19]
His updated adaptation of Phaedra was produced at the National Theatre February to April 2023; the company included Mackenzie Davis, Assaad Bouab and Janet McTeer.
Stone has acted in the television series John Safran's Music Jamboree, MDA, Blue Heelers, Rush, City Homicide, and the films Jindabyne, Kokoda, Balibo, Blame, and The Eye of the Storm.[20]
Film
[edit]Stone's directorial debut film The Daughter premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival and was released in Australia on 17 March 2016 and he won Best Adapted Screenplay at the AACTA Awards.[21]
He directed the British drama film The Dig in 2021.[22] It focuses on an archaeological dig in Sutton Hoo in 1939.
Personal life
[edit]Stone married Jessamy Dyer in 2004[2] though the marriage ended in divorce. He has since married again. His current wife is Stefanie Hackl, a dramaturg.[23]
Philosophy
[edit]Stone likes to take pieces from the standard theatre canon which, with the help of his cast, he reworks into intimate, almost cinematic performances. He often works from improvisation creating an entirely new script through which the original play nevertheless shines. This practice is sometimes referred to as "over-writing".[24]
Stone believes in theatre as a place for polemic: "One can't make theatre based on fear and compromises. Without argument, there is no art."[25]
Yet, at the same time, he acknowledges that his own art has its roots in finding a language for the trauma of his father's death. "I certainly couldn't talk to people about what had happened to me. Especially at a young age, people are very confronted by 'how on earth do I even talk about that absurdly dark thing that happened to Simon?'. Of course, in cinema and literature, you find conversation partners. They're not talking back but they kind of are because they're telling you you're not the only person who's been through that thing."[26]
References
[edit]- ^ "Simon Stone Direction". Munich Kammerspiele. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
- ^ a b c Blake, Elissa (15 February 2011). "A theatre man in a hurry". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
- ^ "Hurtling Stone". The Monthly. 3 May 2012. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
- ^ Hallett, Bryce (30 June 2008). "Spring Awakening". The Sydney Morning Herald (review).
- ^ "2009 Sydney Theatre Awards". Sydney Theatre Awards.
- ^ "The Cherry Orchard". Melbourne Theatre Company. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
- ^ Croggon, Alison (9 August 2013). "When Simon Stone speaks, Australian theatre listens". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
- ^ "Simon Stone, director". Operabase. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
- ^ "Hotel Strindberg". Burgtheater (in German). Retrieved 19 June 2018.
- ^ "Simon Stone". Internationaal Theater Amsterdam (in Dutch). Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- ^ "Flight 49". Internationaal Theater Amsterdam (in Dutch). Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- ^ "Yerma Review Young Vic". TheatreSmart. 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
- ^ Clapp, Susannah (7 August 2016). "Yerma Five-Star Review – Billie Piper Is Earth-Quaking as Lorca's Heroine". The Observer. London. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
- ^ "Yerma : Program & Events". Park Avenue Armory.
- ^ "Médée, Salzburg Festival 2019
- ^ Allison, John. Report from Salzburg. Opera, October 2023, Vol.74, No.10, p1192-4.
- ^ Alexis Soloski (1 January 2020). "Simon Stone Faced the Unthinkable. He Thinks You Should Too.". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
- ^ "Fading Dreams", interview by Matt Dobkin, Metropolitan Opera
- ^ Zachary Woolfe (24 April 2022). "Review: In Lucia at the Met, a Modern Woman Comes Undone". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
- ^ Simon Stone at IMDb
- ^ "AACTA AWARDS". aacta.org. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
- ^ Kenny, Glenn (28 January 2021). "'The Dig' Review: Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes on a Treasure Hunt". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
- ^ "Director Simon Stone: 'My heroes are women'". the Guardian. 21 January 2023. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
- ^ "Simon Stone". tga.nl. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
- ^ "Simon Stone" (in French). Festival d'Avignon. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
- ^ Maddox, Garry (9 March 2016). "The Daughter: how tragedy turned Simon Stone into one of our most promising directors". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
External links
[edit]Media related to Simon Stone at Wikimedia Commons