I was Portia in Stratford one year when Paul walked in, dropped his coat and delivered a speech so masterful I would have played a grain of sand just to be in the same room as himThe Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1965. A vast company of actors. The great Paul Scofield in rehearsal for Timon of Athens. John Schlesinger directing; it was the year his film Darling was released. The Swan theatre was not…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM on February 24, 2014