All's Well That Ends Well (Vol. 26) | Ralph Berry with Konrad Swinarski (interview date 1974)
Ralph Berry with Konrad Swinarski (interview date 1974)
SOURCE: An interview in On Directing Shakespeare: Interviews with Contemporary Directors, Hamish Hamilton, 1989, pp. 42-59.
[In the following interview, Berry discusses with the Polish director Konrad Swinarski the 1971 staging of All's Well That Ends Well at the Teatr Stary, Krakow.]
[Berry]: I'd like to ask you first, and very generally, why you choose to direct Shakespeare.
[Swinarski]: I think it was a coincidence in the beginning. I was asked to do a Shakespeare play in West Germany and I did Twelfth Night, and then I got more and more interested in Shakespeare. The productions I've done here, in Poland, a All's Well That Ends Well and A Midsummer Night's Dream. I did them for many reasons. It was the third time I'd done All's Well. I'd done it once in West Germany and it was not really understood. I did it a second time in...
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