Shakespeare on Stage
Julian Curry
Nick Hern Books
<p>'This book gives some of the very best of Shakespeare's twenty-first-century colleagues an opportunity to share insights that can only come from playing him' Nicholas Hytner, from his Foreword</p><p>Twelve leading actors take us behind the scenes of landmark Shakespearean productions, each recreating in detail their memorable performance in a major role.</p><p>Roger Allam on his Falstaff in both Henry IV plays at Shakespeare's Globe<br>Eileen Atkins on Viola in two productions of Twelfth Night seventeen years apart<br>Simon Russell Beale on Cassius in Deborah Warner's modern-dress Julius Caesar<br>Chiwetel Ejiofor on his Donmar Warehouse Othello, directed by Michael Grandage<br>Sara Kestelman on Hippolyta and Titania in Peter Brook's iconic white-box Dream<br>Ian McKellen on one of Shakespeare's most demanding of roles: King Lear<br>Michael Pennington on stepping in at the eleventh hour as Timon of Athens<br>Alan Rickman on re-evaluating the melancholic Jaques in As You Like...</br></br></br></br></br></br></br></p>