Andrew Hilton at the Neuss Festival in Germany in 2015, 2016 & 2017, and at the Craiova International Festival in Romania in 2016. While Shakespeare has clearly been his main focus, Hilton has attracted high praise for his three Chekhov productions - "Three Sisters", "Uncle Vanya" and "The Cherry Orchard - "and also for his productions of Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia," Sheridan's "The School for Scandal" and Friel's "Living Quarters". In most of his work Hilton works in collaboration with the playwright, Dominic Power, who edits Shakespeare with him and has also contributed new scenes to "Measure for Measure", "The Changeling,The Taming of
The Seagull "Hamlet"). There are many allusions to Shakespearean plot details as well. For instance, Treplyov seeks to win his mother back from the usurping older man Trigorin much as Hamlet tries to win Queen Gertrude back from his uncle Claudius. "The Seagull" was first translated into English for a performance at the Royalty Theatre, Glasgow, in November 1909. Since that time, there have been numerous translations of the text—from 1998 to 2004 alone there were 25 published versions. In the introduction of his own version, Tom Stoppard wrote: "You can't have too many English Seagulls: at the intersection of all of