Adrian Lester
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494 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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And then I realized that I had to play her.
And if I was her, my sensations, my feelings, I thought, okay, they're the same.
Let's say they're the same.
But what does society say I should be if I was a woman?
And I realized that for her, for my Rosalind, I realized that society would be telling her that she should be smaller.
That she's too tall society would be telling her that her voice is too low and so I put put upon myself the rules that society says this is what womanhood is and Then the part began to flourish because then the constraint that she releases herself from by putting on the boys clothes becomes Really evident as soon as she lets go of those rules and says now I can speak as I think and I can I can be as I am
Then she flies.
No!
Peter Brook, very, very famous and world-renowned theatre director.
He did a production at the RSC of Midsummer Night's Dream.
The famous one.
The famous one, which broke all the rules at the time for what people thought theatre should be.
Everybody on swings and trapezes.
Box and trapezes and so on.
And the critics and the audiences just thought, what is this?
The clarity of the text.
Wonderful.
And then he went to the Bouffes du Nord, his theatre, in Paris and established his company and explored all sorts of places from all over the world, all sorts of texts.
And he's a theatre director's director.
I did Rosalind in As You Like It.
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