Garland started Poetry International in 1967 with Ted Hughes and Charles Osborne.[5] He was a director and producer for the BBC's Music and Arts Department (1962–1974), and worked on its Monitor series. In 1964, he directed the Monitor film, "Down Cemetery Road", about Philip Larkin, in which John Betjeman also appeared.[11] His work with the BBC arts department included interviews with Noël Coward (1969), Stevie Smith, and Marcel Marceau.[12] His television film of The Snow Goose (1971) won a Golden Globe for "Best Movie made for TV", and was nominated for both a BAFTA and an Emmy.
Meanwhile, his career in the theatre had begun to develop. In 1967 he created a one-man show based on John Aubrey's Brief Lives with Roy Dotrice (and Michael Williams in a later revival) and the following year directed the original production of Alan Bennett's Forty Years On with John Gielgud as the headmaster of a decaying public school called Albion House.[5] In the mid-1970s, the musical Billy, based on Billy Liar, with Michael Crawford in the lead was performed at Drury Lane, He served as the Artistic Director for the Chichester Festival Theatre twice, 1981–1985 and 1990–1994, where he directed over 20 productions. He also raised money to build and open the theatre's second auditorium, the Minerva Theatre, Chichester.[12] He was the only director to have had four plays running in the West End of London at the same time.[citation needed]
Garland had been working on his memoirs, as well as a book about Corsica, that both remained unfinished at the time of his death. It was announced that his memoirs would be completed by Simon Callow.[16]
Archiveedit
After Garland's death the British Library acquired his archive [17] including diaries and journals, personal and professional correspondencve (including extensive correspondence with Alan Bennett and Ted Hughes), production files, prompt books and directors’ annotated scripts and material relating to Poetry International which Garland founded with Ted Hughes and the inaugural festival at London’s Southbank Centre in 1967.
A Man Whose Disapproval One Would Least Like to Have. A personal memoir of Lord David Cecil, the Goldsmith Professor of English Literature, printed privately 31pp. c.1988
The Wings of The Morning (1989)
Oswald The Owl (1990)
Angels in The Sussex Air (1995), an anthology of Sussex poets
The Incomparable Rex (1998),[18] a memoir of Rex Harrison. Republished with an introduction by Simon Callow (2019)
Abstract & Brief Chronicles (2007), a series of essays read by Garland
Poetryedit
published in:
The London Magazine (1954)
New Poems (1954)
Oxford Poetry, edited by Peter Ferguson and Dennis Keene, Fantasy Press (1957)
Encounter (February 1986)
Encounter (September/October 1987)
Sussex Seams (1996)
Poetry West
Short storiesedit
published in:
Gemini
Light Blue,Dark Blue, published by MacDonald, (1960)
Englanderzählt, edited by Hilde Speil, published by Fischer, Frankfurt (1960)
15 Poems for William Shakespeare, with an introduction by Patrick Garland, John Lehmann, & William Plomer; Eric Walter White, (editor), published by Stratford-upon-Avon: The Trustees & Guardians of Shakespeare's Birthplace (1964)
Beatrix adapted from the writings of Beatrix Potter by Garland and Judy Taylor – directed by Garland (opened at Minerva, then toured to Malvern, Plymouth, Guildford, Richmond, Bath and Windsor); Beatrix was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on 21 February 1998
Selected other productionsedit
The Tremendous Ghost (1964), devised by Garland and Richard Johnson, directed by Garland, Stratford-upon-Avon
'An Enormous Yes’, The poetry and landscape of Philip Larkin, devised by Patrick Garland, performed by Alan Bennett and Patrick Garland
‘Dr. Marigold and Mr Chops’, two stories by Charles Dickens, adapted by Patrick Garland, performed by Simon Callow
Selected television and filmedit
1952 - ‘’The Deluge’’ (Wednesday 30 July 1952), produced by Rodney J. Spratley, The Southampton Student Players, BBC Television [2]
1968 - No Man's Land, written and narrated by Patrick Garland, produced by Tristram Powell. Henry Williamson recalls the first world war, with the war poems of Siegfried Sassoon, BBC television
1969 – An Age of Kings, several parts as actor, BBC Television
1964 – "Down Cemetery Road", film with Philip Larkin and John Betjeman, Monitor (TV)
1968 - "The Highland Jaunt", journey to the Western Islands and Highlands of Scotland in 1773 by Dr. Johnson and Mr. James Boswell , adapted and directed by Patrick Garland, BBC Two
1972 – I Spy a Stranger by Jean Rhys, dramatised by Garland
1980 – "Every Night Something Awful""
1980 – "Chaos Supersedes E.N.S.A."
Radioedit
Broadcasts of poetry read by Garland included Ted Hughes's "The Storm", sub-titled 'from Homer, Odyssey, Book V', commissioned by Anthony Thwaite, broadcast on BBC Radio 3, 1960 [8]
^See "Patrick Garland, Alexandra Bastedo Champions Animal Sanctuary, but other sources date his death from the next day. For example: "Theatre director Patrick Garland dies", telegraph.co.uk, 20 April 2013
^ ab"Patrick Garland, theatre producer and director, dies aged 78". BBC News. 20 April 2013. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
^ abcdCoveney, Michael (22 April 2013). "Obituary: Patrick Garland". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
^. St Edmund Hall notable alumni Archived 23 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine.Retrieved 8 January 2014
^The Times Obituary Patrick Garland. Retrieved 22 April 2013
^ ab"Anthony Thwaite on Patrick Garland, 'an excellent reader of poetry'". The Guardian. 23 April 2013. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
^National Portrait Gallery photograph by Lord Snowdon
^Patrick Garland (1998). The Incomparable Rex: A Memoir of Rex Harrison in the 1980s: the Last of the High Comedians. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-333-71796-7.
^"Poets on Poetry: Seamus Heaney interviewed by Garland (video clip)". BBC. 18 September 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
Further readingedit
Chichester Festival Theatre at Fifty by Kate Mosse, 2012
External linksedit
Walker, Tim (2008). Two old stagers find vigour in Brief Lives, The Spectator, 2 February 2008.