It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare.
I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours.
There are so many people who want to be the next person on 'Home and Away,' or they just want to be on the cover of a magazine, and they don't really understand the craft. They're not interested in theatre, they're not interested in the art.
Peter Brook's 'Midsummer Night's Dream,' I remember seeing. That was pretty early on. And suddenly, I realized how theatrical Shakespeare is, how alive, how wonderful it is when it's opened up by a great director and a great company.
I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.
But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.
I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.
I started to view theatre like a spiritual experience. You're on stage saying somebody else's lines, but you're saying them with full commitment of being that person.
Each of my Shakespeare pieces is different to the other, but each espouses a set of philosophies common to all my theatre work.
The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
