Ros Ballaster
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171 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 6 Aug
Ros Ballaster’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They can't be just doing it in front of you.
experience of the theatre is not one that we necessarily have an exact equivalent for so yes I think I also think it's a shame that we don't see them because actually when you try and read the plays they're quite hard to follow people say this about the country wife and the man of mode as well everyone seems to be called will something or bell something and there are three different couples with different names when you see it on stage you understand how
You've also got a problem with the rake.
It's also, I think, a problem in a lot of modern performances.
That kind of predatory...
threatened rape scene is really hard to manage in front of a modern audience.
I took my students to see the RSC production.
They managed it very well, actually, but all of them were talking on the way back about how do we read this scene?
And the fact that the rape backs away from rape because he thinks, oh, actually, this is a genteel woman.
So he doesn't back away from it because he shouldn't be raping her.
He backs away from it because she's posh.
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