sentences:  On leaving RADA, he went into repertory work in Salisbury, Bristol, Leicester and Birmingham (including "King Lear" and "The Master Builder") and then into Laurence Olivier's company with the National Theatre at the Old Vic from 1965–73.During this time he was involved with many new and influential plays, including Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" and "Jumpers", Peter Shaffer's "The Royal Hunt of the Sun" and Adrian Mitchell's "Tyger".Other work at the National Theatre included "Guys and Dolls", "The Beggar's Opera", "Coriolanus" and "Animal Farm" (for which he won the Clarence Derwent Award in 1985), "The School for Wives", "Wild Oats", "Democracy" and "The UN Inspector".