How did our actors and directors first find Shakespeare? What drew them to it in the first place and kept them coming back?
Viv Graver
is a retired teacher, who taught Shakespeare for more than 30 years in the north of England. Her blog is a series of interviews with RSC cast and creatives about their path to Shakespeare and how they first came to it, at school and elsewhere.
April 29, 2013
I meet Alex a couple of days after press night when he finds a slot in a busy schedule - he is playing in all three Shakespeares scheduled at the moment in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre: Hamlet, As You Like It and All's Well That Ends Well.
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March 20, 2013
To be taken backstage to meet an actor you've just seen in performance is a privilege, but if you are only five years old, fascinating it may be but intimidating, scary.
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March 20, 2013
From the pubs and clubs of Merseyside to the Swan Theatre stage.
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February 28, 2013
It's a big ask to be expected to understudy both Hermione and Perdita in your RSC debut season. But a challenge that Bethan Walker embraced.
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February 18, 2013
Shakespeare, So what? That would have been actor Rakie Ayola's response at age 17.
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February 18, 2013
If you find yourself playing Oberon when you are 12, you may reap the benefit when you are 44. Jo says that he doesn't generally retain the lines of a role after the run. But when he played Oberon two years ago he magically found that he knew the lines.
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February 18, 2013
Bart David Soroczynski played Doctor Caius in The Merry Wives of Windsor. He has an international perspective on theatre arising mainly from his postgraduate experience over the past 10 years.
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February 18, 2013
Although both his parents were actors, Jake had no ambition to follow in their footsteps. He was determined to be a professional footballer and went a good way down the road to become one.
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February 18, 2013
Actor Carla Mendonça appears in The Mouse and His Child and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Carla's parents were both professional dancers in Portugal before moving to England where she grew up. She attended the Rambert Ballet School although her preference was for character dancing, tap and later flamenco. She considered roller skates an extension of her legs!
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February 15, 2013
Phillip Breen directed The Merry Wives of Windsor. He first became aware of Shakespeare as a volume sitting alongside Dickens's novels on a bookshelf at his grandparents' house on Merseyside.
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