Eyre, Richard (Charles Hastings) (1943- )

English stage and film director. He succeeded Peter Hall as artistic director of the National Theatre, London, 1988-97.

His stage productions include Guys and Dolls (1982), Bartholomew Fair (1988), Richard III (1990), which he set in 1930s Britain; Night of the Iguana (1992), Macbeth (1993), Skylight (1995), and Amy's View and King Lear (both 1997). His films include The Ploughman's Lunch (1983), Laughterhouse (US Singleton's Pluck) (1984), Tumbledown (1988, for television), Suddenly Last Summer (1992), The Absence of War (1995), and Iris (2001). He also directed the opera La Traviata at Covent Garden, London, in 1994. He was knighted in 1997.