sentences:  From 1977 to 1990 Caird directed over 20 productions for the RSC, including Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" with Zoë Wanamaker, John Thaw, Daniel Massey and Emrys James, "Romeo and Juliet" with Daniel Day-Lewis, Amanda Root and Roger Allam, "Midsummer Night's Dream" with John Carlisle, Clare Higgins and Richard McCabe, "Merchant of Venice", "As You Like It" and "Antony and Cleopatra".At the RSC's Swan Theatre he directed Ben Jonson's comedies "Every Man in His Humour" with Simon Russell Beale, Henry Goodman and Pete Postlethwaite and the "New Inn" with John Carlisle and Fiona Shaw, the first night of this play being the second-ever professional performance since it first appeared in 1629.His last production at the Swan was his own new version of John Gay's "The Beggar's Opera" with music composed by Ilona Sekacz.