{"id":7,"date":"2011-08-27T17:07:49","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T17:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richardbaron.co.uk\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2020-06-08T14:09:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T14:09:29","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.richardbaron.co.uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Welcome<\/h2>\n<p>Richard is an award-winning freelance theatre director who works throughout the United Kingdom. Educated at St Andrews University, he was awarded a Scottish Arts Council Trainee Director&#8217;s bursary at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh and has since been Associate Director at the Dundee Rep, Pitlochry Festival and Nottingham Playhouse theatres.\u00a0He is a founder\u00a0member and Director of Productions of Firebrand Theatre Company.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richardbaron.co.uk\/wp-content\/gallery\/look-back-in-anger\/666c5874k.jpg\" alt=\"666c5874k\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">David Tennant and Kelly Reilly in <strong>Look Back In Anger<\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;<em>The original angry young man makes a stunning return to the stage<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; ***** The Times<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;<em>This magnificently tough and moving production by Richard Baron<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; **** John Peter, The Sunday Times<\/h6>\n<p>_____________________<\/p>\n<h2>Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>_____________________<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">After the CATS Award-winning success of his production of <strong>The Monarch of The Glen<\/strong> in 2018, Richard directed <strong>Bold Girls<\/strong> at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, and was then appointed Season Director at Pitlochry Festival Theatre where he has recently directed <strong>Chicago<\/strong> (\u201cravishingly entertaining\u201d 5***** Herald), which broke the theatre\u2019s box office records, <strong>The Last Witch<\/strong> (which toured to The Tron and Traverse Theatres) and Nicola McCartney\u2019s <strong>Heritage<\/strong> (\u201cutterly gripping and moving\u201d 5***** Joyce McMillan, Scotsman). His Firebrand production of <strong>Bill McLaren: The Voice of Rugby<\/strong> (5***** The Times), is scheduled to tour the UK in 2021.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardbaron.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_7042-lo-res.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-388 size-large\" title=\"20437787234e1ef74c46f7a8.45150701\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richardbaron.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_7042-lo-res-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"767\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.richardbaron.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_7042-lo-res-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.richardbaron.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_7042-lo-res-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Effect by Lucy Prebble (Firebrand) &#8220;compelling, lucid, superb&#8221; (**** Guardian)<\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome <\/p>\n<p>Richard is an award-winning freelance theatre director who works throughout the United Kingdom. Educated at St Andrews University, he was awarded a Scottish Arts Council Trainee Director&#8217;s bursary at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh and has since been Associate Director at the Dundee Rep, Pitlochry Festival and Nottingham Playhouse theatres.\u00a0He is a founder\u00a0member and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.richardbaron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.richardbaron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.richardbaron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.richardbaron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.richardbaron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"http:\/\/www.richardbaron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"http:\/\/www.richardbaron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.richardbaron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}