Patrick Stewart: my nerve-racking RSC audition with the great John Barton by Patrick Stewart

The actor pays tribute to his mentor John Barton, the Royal Shakespeare Company co-founder who has died aged 89On a cold, wet November evening in 1965, I plodded nervously across the Bancroft Gardens in Stratford-upon-Avon. I had at last been accepted to audition for the Royal Shakespeare Company, although a Sunday evening would not have been my occasion of choice. I was in rep at the Bristol Old Vic company and Sund…

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