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Here in the united kingdom, here's what one... i'm sure a man you know well, one former playwright, resident at the rsc, the royal shakespeare company, says of shakespeare, mark ravenhill, he said he's so... shakespeare is so saturated in our culture that we're no longer in a position to determine how great he is because we can't get enough distance any more. do you think there's something in that? i think there is. what i find is that, you know, a lot of the work we do here in stratford is working with young people who of course are experiencing shakespeare for the first time. mm. i often thi...

Months yet since he left. i don't feel he's somehow sitting on a cloud somewhere. but i do feel, you know, during the rehearsals for richard iii, for instance, a play that he had his fingerprints all over, i did feel him sitting like a bad prosthetic hump on my shoulder, sort of urging me to try harder, to explore deeper, to accept nothing but the best, which is... which in a way is his legacy, and i hope something of our legacy together. but, yes, i... he was my... he was my all—the—world. here's what he said about you and shakespeare. he said, "how lucky am i, married to a great shakespe...

A constant refresher. i mean, i think there are times when a company like this, the danger is that it becomes a treadmill. and it's, "if it's tuesday, it must be as you like it." and you've got to get rid of that and make sure that each play is an event, whether that's because of the casting or the idea behind the production or the conversation with other productions, if you like, or other plays. i want to think more about that 13—year—old kid who might have been in the stalls or up in the circle. when you were that kid, in the 1970s, culture was very different. it was. the kid of today is...

Breathing world, scarce half made up, and that so lamely and unfashionable that dogs bark at me as i halt by them! whyl...? nor would i say that it is no longer possible for non—disabled actors to play richard iii. but what i would say is what he brings from his lived experience is something very particular. nor would i say that i think you have to have adolescent—onset idiopathic scoliosis, which is what we know richard has, because we found it in the car park. nor do i think we have to have an obese alcoholic play falstaff or a scottish murderer play macbeth. but i think there are times ...

You know, it's not eight months yet since he left. i don't feel he's somehow sitting on a cloud somewhere. but i do feel, you know, during the rehearsals for richard iii, for instance, a play that he had his fingerprints all over, i did feel him sitting like a bad prosthetic hump on my shoulder, sort of urging me to try harder, to explore deeper, to accept nothing but the best, which is... which, in a way, is his legacy, and i hope something of our legacy together. but, yes, i... he was my... he was my all—the—world. here's what he said about you and shakespeare. he said, "how lucky am i, ...