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It's important to find characters that share sympathy with a young audience, not just in the story but their role in the world.
A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.
I'm excited about the idea of an act of theatre triggering a parallel creative act of writing.
A mental shutdown can happen when a young person is put in front of a Shakespeare play. My pieces are designed to release young audiences into the story and then creep up with the real Shakespeare, almost by stealth.
I'm attracted to the underrated characters.
I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater.
As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms in the room.
Keeping young people away from Shakespeare is like removing a link to their humanness.
'I, Malvolio' is a very, very funny show, a clown show, but there is Beckettian darkness in the character. Some real darkness, some right close to the edge of despair moments.
Each of my Shakespeare pieces is different to the other, but each espouses a set of philosophies common to all my theatre work.
'Malvolio' is the one show of mine that will not die. I've performed it more than 200 times all over the place.
To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work.
'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.
Unease is not an emotion I get often in the theatre, and I like it.
It's quite rare for a group of people to come together for a live event that isn't loud music. A live event that enables thinking to take place, to take place collectively. It's unique to theatre. It's a quality I never want to see diminished.
Children and teenagers don't easily relate to stories about kings and dukes, and to tell only stories about kings and dukes is to ignore the regular people.
Theatre can be so patronising. So often, it's just proselytising for the theatre.
There is a satire that exists in 'My Arm,' but there is also an honoring of some of the stronger ideas that I've raided from visual art.
