Philip Prowse 1937-

Costume design of the King and Queen for a production of 'The Sleeping Beauty' performed in 1981 by the Dutch National Ballet directed by Sir Peter Wright. The same production was later performed in 1990 by the Royal Ballet.

Please follow this link to see the dancer wearing this costume in the 1981 Dutch Nationa Ballet Production.

Pen and Ink on Paper

29x40cm

Biography, by the James Hyman Gallery London.

Philip Prowse was trained at the Slade School of Art and since 1970 was a Co-Director of the Citizens' Company with Giles Havergal and Robert David MacDonald. In 2003 both Havergal and MacDonald stepped down from their posts as Directors of the Company. Prowse however, continued his role as artistic collaborator with newly appointed Artistic Director, Jeremy Raison, until 2004.

He has directed and designed for the Citizens' Company:

The Relapse; Early Morning; Troilus and Cressida; Camino Real; The Duchess of Malfi; The Changeling; Hamlet; Semi-Monde; Painter's Palace of Pleasure; The Threepenny Opera; The Seagull; Summit Conference; Chinchilla; The Country Wife; The Maid's Tragedy; A Waste of Time; Don Juan; The Massacre at Paris; The Roman Actor; Philosophy in the Boudoir; Sirocco; Webster; The Balcony; The Blacks; The Screens; Rosenkavalier; Oroonoko; A Woman of No Importance; French Knickers; Mary Stuart; Heartbreak House; The Spanish Bawd; An Ideal Husband; Anna Karenina; The Vortex; 'Tis Pity She's a Whore; Lady Windemere's Fan; Phedra; A Tale of Two Cities; Enrico Four; Mother Courage; Jane Shore; Mourning Becomes Electra; Design for Living; "1953"; Edward II; Sweet Bird of Youth; The Picture of Dorian Gray; The Soldiers; The Second Mrs Tanqueray; Private Lives; The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore; Women Beware Women; Don Carlos; In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel; Hamlet; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; In The Solitude of the Cotton Fields; The Homecoming; Pygmalion; Cavalcade; Blithe Spirit; Pal Joey; Suddenly Last Summer; The Cherry Orchard; Britannicus; Cheri; Venice Preserved.

He has directed and designed:

Handel's Tamburlaine - Welsh National Opera
Summit Conference; - Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue
The White Devil; The Seagull; The Orphan - Greenwich Theatre
The Duchess of Malfi; The White Devil - National Theatre
Phedra - Old Vic, Aldwych
Aida; The Threepenny Opera; Orpheo ed Euridice; Daphne; La Gioconda - Opera North
The Pearl Fishers - English National Opera
The Vortex - Garrick Theatre
Mother Courage - the Mermaid Theatre
Giovanna d'Arco - The Royal Opera
The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore - Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith

He has also designed:

Swan Lake; Sleeping Beauty; Gloriana; Lazarus - Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet
Diversions; Laurentia; Paquita; La Bayadere - The Royal Ballet
Swan Lake - Zurich Opera House
The Nutcracker; The Scarlet Pastorale; Cheri - Scottish Ballet
The Sleeping Beauty - for Dutch National Ballet
Orpheo ed Euridice; Ariadne auf Naxos - The Royal Opera at Covent Garden
Swan Lake - Munich Opera House
The Magic Flute - Scottish Opera
The Wooden Prince - Festival Ballet
Don Giovanni - English National Opera
Sleeping Beauty - Vienna State Opera
Carmina Burana - Birmingham Royal Opera