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Guy Sprung is a director of film and theatre born in Ottawa in 1947. Having worked all over the world, he now lives in the Mile End area of Montreal and is the artistic director of Infinitheatre. ==Career== Before founding the Half Moon Theatre in London, England, he was an assistant director at the Schiller Theater in Berlin. As director of the acclaimed ''Balconville'' by David Fennario, Sprung traveled with the company on an international tour to England and Ireland. In 1990, Sprung was invited to direct ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' at the Pushkin Theatre in Moscow. The production ran in repertory for eleven years to sold-out houses. His experience in Russia inspired the work ''Hot Ice: Shakespeare in Moscow, A Director's Diary'',"a combination of travel journal, personal memoir, autobiography, manifesto and director's notebook.〔http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/tric/article/view/7164/8223〕 Mr Sprung was Artistic Director of the Toronto Free Theatre from 1982 to 1988. During this time he conceived and founded the outdoor Shakespeare in High Park, largest outdoor Shakespeare venue in North America. In 2001 his Montreal theatre company, Infinithéâtre, was invited to represent Quebec and Canada at the Cairo International Festival of Experimental Theatre in Egypt, with its bilingual production of Samuel Beckett's ''Endgame/Fin de partie''. Sprung created the bilingual version, directed the production, and also played the part of Nagg when Marc Gélinas was in too poor health to play the role he originated. Sprung is fluent in French and German, and became proficient in Russian while directing in Moscow. He was co-founder and first sole Artistic Director of The Canadian Stage Company, an Associate Director at the Stratford Festival, and interim Artistic Director of the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company and has taught at the National Theatre School of Canada and the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montréal. Matt Radz in The Gazette writes that "...if there was a Great Book of Canadian Theatre, Sprung's picture would head the Cutting Edge chapter."〔http://www2.canada.com/montrealgazette/columnists/matt_radz.htmlwrote〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Guy Sprung」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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