Other productions included A Passion in Six Days at the Royal Court in March 1984, Othello at the Lyric, Hammersmith, Hedda Gabler at the Leicester Haymarket and The Alchemist for Cambridge Theatre Company.
In October 1984 he became Artistic Director of the Tron Theatre in Glasgow, where he staged a production of Macbeth starring Iain Glen, an adaptation of Janice Galloway's The Trick is to Keep Breathing and Michel Tremblay's Quebec plays, The Real World?
[4] Other Tron productions include MacBeth Possessed, Ghost Story, Terrestrial Extras, The Marble Madonna, McGrotty and Ludmilla, Muir, Sleeping Beauty, Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Doctor Faustus, The Funeral and Losing Alec.
During this time he was also Drama Director of the New Beginnings Festival of Soviet Arts in Glasgow in 1999, and directed Miss Julie in the Frank McGuinness version at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in February 2000.
He ran a year-long Complete Works of Shakespeare Festival (begun in April 2006 and involving other companies as well as the RSC) and a London season at the Novello Theatre.