The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There's a lot of people in the community who are seeing a play for a first time, and that, to me, is really exciting.
I was in a lot of school plays, and it became the thing I did.
The great fun of doing new plays is that people have no idea what's going to happen next. That goes quite soon, as people start talking about it, and the only way you can keep hold of that is genuinely to keep changing it.
It's always been fun for me to play a variety of parts, and over the years, I've been lucky with the things I've been asked to do.
I needed to do a play. I needed to learn how to act again, in a focused, all-encompassing way, and a really challenging play is a great way to do that.
The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just loved it.
Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug.
When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.
And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.