Adrian Noble

Adrian Noble was educated at Chichester High School and Bristol University. His professional training began at the London Drama Centre and he moved from there into community theatre and young people's theatre at the Trinity Arts Centre, Birmingham. In 1976 he went to the Bristol Old Vic on a Thames TV Director's Bursary, where he was first a Resident Director and then an Associate Director. In 1980 and 1981 at the Royal Exchange Theatre Company in Manchester he directed The Duchess of Malfi and Dr Faustus. In 1980 he joined the RSC as Assistant Director, becoming an Associate Director almost immediately. His first production for the RSC was Ostrovsky's The Forest which transferred first to the Warehouse and then to the Aldwych Theatre in the West End and was named best revival in 1981 Dra