Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes CBE (born 1 August 1965) is an English film and stage director, producer and screenwriter. In theatre, he is known for his dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret (1994), Oliver! (1994), Company (1995), and Gypsy (2003). He directed an original West End stage musical for the first time with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013).
For directing the play The Ferryman, Mendes was awarded the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 2019.
UK theatres need urgent help, David Tennant warns
breakingnews.ieUK theatres will need government help if they are to survive the coronavirus pandemic, actor David Tennant has warned. Venues across the country closed in March as a national lockdown was imposed in an attempt to halt the spread of the virus.
Some prominent industry figures, including playwright James Graham, fear it may take a year for theatres to reopen their doors.
Tennant said one of the biggest stumbling blocks was audience safety. In an interview with the Radio Times, he said: “The audience is the bigger issue.
You’re asking people to pay a lot of money to potentially have someone coughing into their packet of boiled sweets and infecting them. “I don’t know what the answer is yet.
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