we have now no thought in us but france we'll bend it to our all or break it all to peace the
don mart is such a unique theatrical experience can you describe some of the pros and cons
i've always wanted to work at the donmar that's the first thing to say um it really was i had like
a checklist of pie in the sky kind of theaters i'd love to work out and don mal was very high
up that list um as was the part of henry v so the two things is it is a dream is a dream thing for
me he bits you then resign your crown and kingdom no else what follows like sometimes with theaters
you're screened by this sort of the lights and you can't really see the audience and you're
performing you can hear them you can feel them but here you can see pretty much every face so
there's an intensity to that there's a real immediacy to that which can be quite daunting
the king of england if not king of france commend my service to my sovereignty you could never have
predicted what was going to be happening in the news how has it affected the production
unfortunately you can't predict the news and this that's never been truer than in the last five or
six years i think um the invasion of ukraine was something none of us saw and this play wasn't
shaped around that idea at all it was shaped around the idea of colonialism and patriotism and
in some sense what it is to be english and what leadership is in fierce tempest is he coming
like a god the games are full follow your spirit they're a brilliant group of actors the actors i'm
working alongside and i've learned a huge amount of them i mean we've got real experience in actors
such as jude and also kate to shen who have done shakespeare many times jude did the henry the
fifth major and leicester so just watching them work with the text has been really useful for me
yes they really make it so modern and fluid i almost have to question is that
does shakespeare write that you know well that's the idea max has been so good with that is that
you don't want to ah there's nothing i hate more than going to shakespeare where people
are giving so much reverence to the text that you don't know what they're you know that you don't
know what they're talking about what they're actually saying in fact you want it to sound
understandable and like we speak and that's the eye that's that's um that's what we've tried to do
and with them the national theatre bringing in their cameras obviously they'll have to
have rehearsed with you how has that been have you experienced that yet we haven't rehearsed
it like that yeah and i was i'm i've never done an anti-live show before so it'll be weird that
mix of i'm guessing that they film in a way that it just feels like you're doing the show
and you're very unaware of where the cameras are um but i'm wondering what kind of energy
because every performance is so kind of poised on the different energies of the audience or what's
going on it you know could bring a whole different thing to it so i'm looking forward to it for me
it's olivier's vision is to bring theater to the masses so it couldn't be more perfect what are
your you know i had a very bad experience years ago of watching the first play i did watching
a clip of it having been filmed and it was from a stationary camera down onto the stage and you know
far away mike and all of that and it really threw me because watching theater in that sense
just not the same it looks awful it sounds awful it's not supposed to be filmed in that
way and what nt live do is they change that and they've found a way of filming live performance
which is the closest as yet we've come to it being like you're in the room and um and that
means it can go out and people can get the essence of the play and the performances and
that's really important important if people can't get to a theater such as this which has a limited
number of seats and is in london absolutely i mean for me i think it's transformed theater
it's created a new medium you know so thank you so much for joining us kate harrington and
your play is wonderful i hope millions come to sit thank you see you soon thank you
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