2 #highlyrecommended #Christmaspresents for all #Shakespearelovers - both volumes in #TheatreBookofYear award #2010 & #2018

'Shakespeare on Stage' by Julian Curry pub'd by Nick Hern Books - https://www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/ and all good enterprising bookshops

In Volume 1, 13 leading actors take us behind the scenes, each recreating in detail a memorable performance in one of Shakespeare's major roles and in volume 2, there are 12 conversations with #staractors. There's a chatty, intimate tone to the chapters as if interviewer and interviewee are sitting by an open fire with a glass of wine in hand. Probing, insightful questions that throw light on the specific role in the production in question. A #musthave for #Shakespearelovers

#JudiDench on #Juliet #IanMcKellen on #Macbeth & #KingLear #RalphFiennes on #Coriolanus #FionaShaw on #Katherine #BrianCox on #TitusAndronicus #RebeccaHall on #Rosalind #DerekJacobi on #Malvolio #JudeLaw on #Hamlet #AdrianLester on #HenryV #HelenMirren on #Cleopatra #TimPigottSmith on #Leontes #KevinSpacey on #RichardII #PatrickStewart on #Prospero & #Shylock #PenelopeWilton on #Isabella #RogerAllam on #Falstaff #EileenAtkins on #Viola #SimonRussellBeale on #Cassius #ChiwetelEjiofor on #Othello #SaraKestelman on #Titania & #Hippolyta #MichaelPennington on #TimonofAthens #AlanRickman on #Jacques #HarrietWalter on #Imogen #ZoeWanamaker on #Beatrice