Theatre director who brought Brechtian principles and puritanical rigour to his productionsProductions by the theatre director William Gaskill, who has died aged 85, were praised for their remarkable clarity, but he dismissed this habitual compliment. "What do they expect it to be?" he asked. "Muddy?" Asked in the 1960s about his policy for running the Royal Court theatre, Gaskill insisted that "policy just means the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:46AM on February 4, 2016