Helen Mirren on Cleopatra
Ebook, 19 pages ISBN: 9781780012056Publication Date:
23 May 2013
£3.99 £3.19You save £0.80 (20%)

Helen Mirren on Cleopatra

Performing Shakespeare

By Helen Mirren and Julian Curry

Ebook £3.99£3.19

Helen Mirren discusses playing Cleopatra, in this ebook taken from Shakespeare On Stage: Thirteen Leading Actors in Thirteen Key Roles.

In each volume of the Shakespeare On Stage series, a leading actor takes us behind the scenes, recreating in detail a memorable performance in one of Shakespeare’s major roles. They discuss their character, working through the play scene by scene, with refreshing candour and in forensic detail. The result is a masterclass on playing the role, invaluable for other actors and directors, as well as students of Shakespeare – and fascinating for audiences of the play.

In this volume, Helen Mirren discusses Cleopatra, a role she was born for and has played in three productions of Antony and Cleopatra.

This interview, together with the others in the series (with actors such as Judi Dench, Ian McKellen and Jude Law), is also available in the collection Shakespeare On Stage: Thirteen Leading Actors on Thirteen Key Roles by Julian Curry, with a foreword by Trevor Nunn.

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'absorbing and original... Curry's actors are often thinking and talking as that other professional performer, Shakespeare himself, might have done'

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Ebook,19 pages ISBN: 9781780012056Publication Date:
23 May 2013
£3.99 £3.19You save £0.80 (20%)

Also by Julian Curry:

Chiwetel Ejiofor on Othello
Harriet Walter on Imogen
Jude Law on Hamlet
Sara Kestelman on Hippolyta and Titania
Shakespeare On Stage: Volume 2
Brian Cox on Titus Andronicus
Patrick Stewart on Prospero
Alan Rickman on Jaques
Judi Dench on Juliet
Michael Pennington on Timon of Athens
Ralph Fiennes on Coriolanus
Derek Jacobi on Malvolio
Penelope Wilton on Isabella
Tim Pigott-Smith on Leontes
Ian McKellen on King Lear
Fiona Shaw on Katherine
Ian McKellen on Macbeth
Roger Allam on Falstaff
Adrian Lester on Henry V
Shakespeare On Stage
Patrick Stewart on Shylock
Rebecca Hall on Rosalind
Eileen Atkins on Viola
Simon Russell Beale on Cassius
Zoë Wanamaker on Beatrice

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