Shakespeare's First Acts: Timon of Athens by Simon Russell Beale
Shakespeare's First Acts: Timon of Athens, assessed by Simon Russell Beale, currently playing the lead in Nicholas Hytner's acclaimed modern spin on the play at the National Theatre. "He doesn't say very much in the first act, really. It's only later in the play that he starts speaking at enormous length about various things. But in the first half of the play you don't really get to know him. I think that's quite int…