STRATFORD, England : Celebrated British actor Geraldine James thought it was a joke when she was asked to take the lead in the Royal Shakespeare Company's latest production of 'As You Like It', a comedy of young love.A quick chat with Omar Elerian, the production's relatively youthful Italian-born directo
STRATFORD, England : Celebrated British actor Geraldine James thought it was a joke when she was asked to take the lead in the Royal Shakespeare Company's latest production of"As You Like It", a comedy of young love.
But Elerian, 44, says it was primarily about drawing on the experiences of his veteran cast and their enhanced power to draw out Shakespeare's meaning. To have her playing Rosalind"is a gift," Elerian says. She brings her craft"to a role and words that in more kind of traditional casting, we wouldn't be able to hear".
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