Theatre director and founder of the English Shakespeare Company whose 1980 production of The Romans in Britain led to an obscenity trialThere was nothing timid or compromised about the work of the theatre director Michael Bogdanov, who has died aged 78. In tandem with the actor Michael Pennington, he founded and ran the English Shakespeare Company for 12 years from 1986, starting with the history plays and racing th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:31PM on April 18, 2017