Higham Ronald Hayman was a British critic, dramatist, and writer who was best known as a biographer.
11 Facts About Ronald Hayman
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Ronald Hayman was born on May 4,1932, in East Cliff Hotel in Bournemouth, England, a Jewish hotel which had been founded by his grandmother, Anne Morris.
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Ronald Hayman's mother, Sadie, was an administrator at the hotel while his father, John, was in a partnership running an antiques and jewellery business.
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Ronald Hayman served in the Royal Air Force for a one-year duty, from 1950 to 1951.
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Ronald Hayman became involved in professional theatre after playing the lead in Love's Labour's Lost with English amateurs in Berlin.
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Ronald Hayman then attended drama school and acted for three years in rep and on television.
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Ronald Hayman made his debut as a director with Jean Genet's Deathwatch at the Arts Theatre in 1960 and in 1961 was awarded an ABC Television traineeship, which took him to Northampton for a year as assistant producer.
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Ronald Hayman directed Bertolt Brecht's In the Jungle of Cities and a stage adaptation of Robin Maugham's The Servant.
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Ronald Hayman directed at Theatre Royal Stratford East, Farnham, the Edinburgh Festival, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, and Guildford, and for Open Space.
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Ronald Hayman's one-man show with Max Adrian as George Bernard Shaw transferred to the West End and went on a world tour.
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Ronald Hayman was a regular contributor to the Arts page of The Times and to the New Review.