Shakespeare's Influence | Shakespeare and the Modern Director

One of the questions I'm often asked is which Shakespearean play interests me the most. I find that difficult to answer because my experience has been that the play I'm working on at a given time is the one that most thoroughly engages my attention. For me, and I suspect for most directors, it is work on a play that makes it interesting. It seems to expand into a universe of its own, so that at that time no other play seems to matter. This doesn't mean, of course, that work on one play excludes consideration of all other plays, because one of the things I've always felt is that when you're...

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