All the Shakespeare parts are for young women, mostly.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As I get older I find myself thinking it all begins with Shakespeare.
Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.
There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.
Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.
I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.
When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.
There's such an array of brilliant roles for young women. You read all these amazing young women going through different stages in their life - different stages, different fascinations, different textualities, different friendships.
Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
We're very lucky, men, that there are these fabulous parts. Women - once you've done all the parts in Shakespeare, they start running out. So you can pick and choose and find something to energise you.