The recent death of my brother and the cycle of violence in Northern Ireland made performing Electra on tour an extraordinary experienceBy the late 1980s I had played a series of heroines at the RSC witty women on the brink of marriage, such as Portia, Beatrice and Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew. I associated acting with entertainment, with being able to turn a line on a sixpence and make people laugh. So when…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AM on April 29, 2014