Editing Michael Redgrave (section)

===1960s===
Roles included:
* Jack Dean in ''[[The Tiger and the Horse]]'' by [[Robert Bolt]] (which Redgrave also co-presented, directed by [[Frith Banbury]]), [[Sondheim Theatre|Queen's Theatre]], August 1960
* Victor Rhodes in ''[[The Complaisant Lover]]'' by [[Graham Greene]], [[Ethel Barrymore Theatre]], New York, November 1961 – 101 performances

[[File:Michael Redgrave.jpg|thumb|Michael Redgrave in costume for the lead role in ''Uncle Vanya'', backstage at the Chichester Festival Theatre, 1962. ''Photo: Tony French.'']]Returning to the [[UK]], in July 1962 he took part in the [[Chichester Festival Theatre]]'s opening season, playing the title role in [[Anton Chekhov|Chekhov's]] ''[[Uncle Vanya]]'' to the Astrov of [[Laurence Olivier]] who also directed.

Alongside [[John Dexter]]'s Chichester staging of ''Saint Joan'', Olivier's ''Uncle Vanya'' was first revived in Chichester in 1963 before transferring to the Old Vic as part of the nascent [[Royal National Theatre]]'s inaugural season, winning rave reviews and Redgrave's second win as Best Actor in the 1963 [[Evening Standard Awards]]. Critic [[Michael Billington (critic)|Michael Billington]] recalled: "In Redgrave's Vanya you saw both a tremulous victim of a lifetime's emotional repression and the wasted potential of a Chekhovian might-have-been: as Redgrave and Olivier took their joint curtain call, linked hands held triumphantly aloft, we were not to know that this was to symbolise the end of their artistic amity."<ref>Michael Billington ''State of the Nation: British Theatre Since 1945'', London: Faber, 2007, p.142 {{ISBN|978-0-571-21034-3}}</ref>

Redgrave played (and co-presented) Lancelot Dodd MA in [[Arthur Watkyn]]'s ''[[Out of Bounds (play)|Out of Bounds]]'' at [[Wyndham's Theatre]] in November 1962, following it at the Old Vic with his portrayal of Claudius opposite the Hamlet of [[Peter O'Toole]] on 22 October 1963. This ''Hamlet'' was in fact the National Theatre's official opening production, directed by Olivier, but [[Simon Callow]] has dubbed it "slow, solemn, long", while [[Ken Campbell]] vividly described it as "brochure theatre."<ref>''The National: 1963–1997'' by Simon Callow, Nick Hern Books (1997) {{ISBN|1-85459-323-4}}</ref>

In January 1964 at the National he played the title role in ''[[Hobson's Choice (play)|Hobson's Choice]]'', which he admitted was well outside his range: "I couldn't do the [[Lancashire]] accent and that shook my nerve terribly – all the other performances suffered." While still at the National in June 1964 he also played Halvard Solness in ''The Master Builder'', which he said 'went wrong'. At this time he had incipient [[Parkinson's disease]], although he did not know it.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>

In May and June 1965 Redgrave directed the opening festival of the [[Yvonne Arnaud Theatre]] in [[Guildford]], including directing and playing Rakitin in ''A Month in the Country'' (co-starring with [[Ingrid Bergman]] as Natalya Petrovna), and Samson in ''Samson Agonistes'' (co-starring with Rachel Kempson as Chorus). He again played Rakitin in September 1965, when his production transferred to the [[Cambridge Theatre]] in London. For the [[Glyndebourne Festival Opera]] he directed ''[[Werther]]'' in 1966 and ''[[La bohème]]'' in 1967.<ref>{{cite web|title=Michael Redgrave|url=http://glyndebourne.com/archive/individual/michael-redgrave|work=Performances|publisher=Glyndebourne|access-date=6 November 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131106025912/http://glyndebourne.com/archive/individual/michael-redgrave|archive-date=6 November 2013}}</ref>