Interview: Mark Rylance, Part 1

Synopsis: Prior to the 2004 season at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, ‘Star-Crossed Lovers’, Heather Neill talks to its artistic director, Mark Rylance. Rylance talks about young people who commit suicide and the work of the Samaritans. He speaks of Friars in Shakespeare’s plays (Romeo and Juliet, Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing) and the counselling work they do. He talks about acting in the Globe’s space and believes that what is important in theatre happens between the actors and the audience. Rylance speaks of single-sex casting including the all-female Much Ado About Nothing. The talk concludes with Rylance’s comments on the Globe’s Education work.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Audio; Multimedia
Recording date: 16 Apr 2003
Duration: 21 mins

Production type: Documentary/Educational/News
Subjects: Drama
Keywords: Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre; Single-sex casting

Notes: Site accessed (5/2007). A transcript is svailable.
General: Theatrevoice is a website for audio content about British theatre, and features journalists from across the UK as well as press and practitioners from across the theatre industry. It was set up in 2003 to see if theatre could be talked about in a new way: allowing critics to be more expansive than the usual space constraints of the print media allowed. In 2008, V&A Theatre Collections and Rose Bruford College, London agreed to support the site in partnership. (http://www.theatrevoice.com/about_us/, accessed 7/2010)

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Notes: Theatrevoice is the leading online site for audio content about British theatre.

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