"203749" . "Stephen Howard Davies CBE (born 26 April 1945) is a British theatre and television director.Davies, the son of a miner, was born in Durham, County Durham, England and studied at Durham University and Bristol University, where he developed an appreciation for the works of Bertolt Brecht.In the early 1970s, Davies worked extensively with the Bristol Old Vic and the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, and he has served as an associate director for both the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he directed Les liaisons dangereuses, Macbeth, and Troilus and Cressida. "@en .