Theatre director Claire van Kampen dies aged 71

British theatre manager and composer Claire van Kampen has died aged 71, her hubby histrion Sir Mark Rylance has confirmed.

Van Kampen, who was the archetypal pistillate philharmonic manager astatine some the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre, died connected Saturday aft being diagnosed with cancer, a connection shared connected behalf of Sir Mark and her girl Juliet said.

They described her arsenic "one of the funniest and (most) inspiring women we person ever known".

Her theatre credits besides see penning the play Farinelli And The King, which starred her hubby and was nominated for respective Olivier Awards including champion caller play, and a fig of Tony Awards.

She died successful the German municipality of Kassel surrounded by her family, the connection said. Saturday besides marked Sir Mark's 65th birthday.

"We convey her for imbuing our lives with her magic, music, laughter, and love," it added.

"Ring the bell, dependable the trumpets reverie, thing is done, thing is beginning. One of the large omniscient ones has passed."

Van Kampen and Sir Mark joined successful 1989, the aforesaid twelvemonth she composed the euphony for the Royal Shakespeare Company accumulation of Hamlet which helium starred in.

She went connected to constitute archetypal scores for Broadway productions including True West, Boeing-Boeing and La Bete, arsenic good arsenic adaptations of Shakespeare's Twelth Night and Richard IIII.

After grooming astatine the Royal College of Music successful London, wherever she studied euphony mentation and piano, van Kampen joined the Royal Shakespeare Company successful 1986.

She joined the Royal National Theatre the pursuing year, and went connected to service arsenic an creator subordinate to Sir Mark astatine Shakespeare's Globe theatre successful the capital.

Most recently, van Kampen was Globe subordinate and elder probe chap for aboriginal modern euphony astatine the Globe, arsenic good arsenic a originative subordinate astatine the Old Vic Theatre successful London.

She besides worked arsenic a Tudor euphony advisor and put for the BBC tv bid Wolf Hall.

Van Kampen had 2 daughters with her erstwhile husband, designer Christopher van Kampen.

Her girl Nataasha, a filmmaker, died aged 28 successful 2012 aft suffering a encephalon haemorrhage.