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Alex Avery

'In most scenes that Valentine's in, he is driving them, whereas in the scene that Decius Brutus is in he's more reactive. In doing both you can enjoy the differences...'

Phillip Edgerley

'The good thing is being able to work in two completely different worlds, with completely different directors who had such vastly different visions but also working on the same writer, and the writer at different stages of his ability and career...'

Andrew Melville

'One of the problems with playing a comic character in Shakespeare is that it's always rather difficult, because you want to try and create a real person. You don't want to have someone that just does stick-on comedy...'

Laurence Mitchell

'I always find the rehearsal period very interesting, very bewildering, very scary, very vulnerable. I think all actors should be vulnerable when they're rehearsing, or otherwise they play safe...'

Rachel Pickup

'With the joyful music from the period, and knowing that we would be wearing gorgeous things it really did help to infuse an atmosphere and make it a really nice place to be in...'