Stuart Burge, 84; Actor, Director Revived 2 Theaters
Stuart Burge, 84, a British actor and director who turned the Nottingham Playhouse into a major venue and rescued the Royal Court Theatre in London from bankruptcy, died last Thursday of undisclosed causes in Lymington, England.
As a television director, Burge worked on acclaimed productions of D.H. Lawrence’s “Sons and Lovers” and “The Rainbow,” several of Alan Bennett’s “Talking Heads” monologues and Federico Garcia Lorca’s “House of Bernarda Alba,” which starred Glenda Jackson and Joan Plowright.
From 1968 to 1973, he served as artistic director of the Nottingham Playhouse, in the English city of that name,
In 1977, he took over the debt-ridden Royal Court, returning it to profitability with such successes as a revival of John Osborne’s “Inadmissible Evidence.”
Burge attended the Royal Military College at Sandhurst before enrolling in London’s Old Vic theater school in 1936.
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