It's what Shakespeare's mission was - to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring about the possibility of getting the most we can out of a day as opposed to least in this brief moment we're here.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening.
Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.
And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.
It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.
Shakespeare gives you these clues - these little pieces of gold dust, I call them. They tell you so much about the story, the character, the drive, the intentions. It's like a gift.
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.
You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.
I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience.
Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation.