I went to a Jesuit school and they did a William Shakespeare play every year. I got to know Shakespeare as parts… — Gregory Doran Copy Share Image
I have seen productions of Julius Caesar that set it in a modern, Western context and it just looks as though they're getting rid… — Gregory Doran Copy Share Image
Sometimes the parallels that are brought in can make the play seem less relevant; you can deny a play's application to the universal by… — Gregory Doran Copy Share Image
I guess, is we are not saying, "Look, William Shakespeare's written a critique of modern Africa." What we're saying is that we've shifted the… — Gregory Doran Copy Share Image
I think William Shakespeare's like a passport through your life: as a kid hearing about a play with fairies or witches or ghosts, you… — Gregory Doran Copy Share Image
I don't think Vladimir Putin goes to the theater enough to even deign to think there was any criticism intended. We were invited by… — Gregory Doran Copy Share Image
Sometimes it can get overburdened with nuance - the actors find all sorts of different spins on the lines that can lose simplicity and… — Gregory Doran Copy Share Image
King Lear by William Shakespeare frightens me. I've never done King Lear, I guess partially because my father dwindled into dementia in his last… — Gregory Doran Copy Share Image
The list of potential candidates for Julius Caesar is quite large. You could go, "Well, he's a Caesar." Idi Amin, or Bokassa in the… — Gregory Doran Copy Share Image
I always feel emotionally engaged in productions. If I ever get to the point where I don't feel emotionally engaged, maybe I should stop.… — Gregory Doran Copy Share Image
By the time I came of age and, indeed, Margaret Thatcher became prime minister, I had seen the entire William Shakespeare canon, which, in… — Gregory Doran Copy Share Image
Really what Brutus and Cassius do by assassinating Caesar, is open up a vacuum into which much more ruthless people run. Julius Caesar is… — Gregory Doran Copy Share Image
At the assassination of Caesar when Cassius says, "How many ages hence shall this our lofty scene be acted over in states unborn and… — Gregory Doran Copy Share Image
