The Society of British Theatre Designers

2011 National Exhibition

Richard Foxton

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Biography

Richard Foxton has designed well over 100 productions for theatres all over the country including:-
"Takeaway" Theatre Royal, Stratford East
"The Winter's Tale ", "Aladdin" , "Absent Friends", "Beauty & the Beast" Mercury Theatre , Colchester
"Blue/Orange","The Country Wife ", "Queen's English", "Big Night Out..." and "Cor , Blimey!"(Palace Theatre , Watford)
"Eight Miles High" (Royal Court Theatre,Liverpool)
"Noises Off","Aladdin", "Chimps", "Cinderella","Laurel and Hardy", "Beauty and the Beast", "Vincent in Brixton", "The Price", "Double Indemnity" and "A Family Affair" (New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich)
" A Passionate Woman", "Macbeth", "Pub Quiz is Life", "The Flags","On a Shout", "Ladies Down Under", "Ladies Day ", "Toast", "Satin and Steel" ,"Up on Roof", "1984", "Lonesome West" and "Under the Whaleback"(Hull Truck)
"Deathtrap", "Stepping Out", "Kes", "The Sunshine Boys","On the Piste", "Martha , Josie and the Chinese Elvis", "Brassed Off", "Perfect Pitch", and "Neville's Island" (Oldham Coliseum)
"The Rise and Fall of Little Voice" (Harrogate Theatre)
"Death of a Salesman" , "Things we do for Love" (Library Theatre, Manchester)
"Office Suite" (Theatre Royal , Bath - national tour)
"Brassed Off"(Sheffield Theatres - national tour)
"Desperate to be Doris", "Hector's House" and "The Importance of being Earnest" (Lipservice - national tours)
"Hansel and Gretel" (Theatre Royal , Wakefield)
"Brassed Off", "Neville's Island" and "All my Sons" (Theatre Royal , York)
"Midnight Cowboy" (Assembly Rooms , Edinburgh)
"Macbeth" , "Equus", "The Miser", " Dead Funny" , "Cinderella" , "Aladdin" ,"Jack and the Beanstalk" and "Noises Off" (Salisbury Playhouse)
"The Firebird", "The Ugly Duckling" (Dukes Theatre ,Lancaster)
"Kvetch" (West Yorkshire Playhouse)
"Oedipus Tyrannos", "Man=Man", "Woza Albert"( Contact Theatre , Manchester)
"A Clockwork Orange"( TAG Theatre Co. -national tour)
and over fifty productions for the Octagon Theatre , Bolton including:-
"And Did Those Feet...", "The Caretaker", "Once Upon a Tme in Wigan",
"The Crucible", "Oh, What a Lovely War", "Song of Singapore","Eight Miles High","A Skull in Connemara","Blood Wedding", "Under Milkwood", "The Pitchfork Disney", "Saved", "Dancing at Lughnasa","A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Neville's Island", "Silly Cow", "Perfect Pitch", "Woman in Mind", "Blithe Spirit", "Enjoy".

He has won five Manchester Evening News Design Awards in 1992, 1994, 1999 ,2000 and 2008. In 1997 he was a judge of the Linbury Prize.His design for "Murderer Hope of Womankind " was part of the Gold medal winning British Exhibit at PQ95.