4.7 • 837 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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0:00.0 | On today's episode, the Royal Shakespeare Company's former artistic director takes a look back at four decades of staging Shakespeare. |
0:11.8 | From the Folcher Shakespeare Library, this is Shakespeare Unlimited. I'm Michael Whitmore, the Folger director. |
0:20.8 | Greg Doran's career as a Shakespearean director began in the late 1970s when he was a teenager. |
0:26.9 | By the time he stepped down as the artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company earlier this year, |
0:32.4 | Doran had directed every play in the first folio. |
0:35.9 | He capped off this remarkable feat with a production of Symbeline. |
0:39.3 | His staging of that notoriously difficult play drew rave reviews. |
0:44.3 | In between, Doran helmed era-defining productions of Shakespeare's plays, |
0:49.3 | both the well-known and the relatively obscure. |
0:52.3 | He even brought Shakespeare's nondramatic poetry to the stage |
0:56.0 | with a version of Venus and Adonis starring puppets. |
1:00.0 | Along the way, he worked with actors such as Judy Dench, David Tennant, Patrick Stewart, |
1:05.0 | and the late Anthony Shear to whom Doran was married. |
1:09.0 | Doran's new memoir, My Shakespeare, tells the story of his life through the plays he has directed. |
1:14.6 | It's a portrait of an artist at work shot through with commentary about the plays themselves |
1:19.6 | and insights about working with actors. |
1:22.6 | It's also an intimate account of Doran's deep artistic partnership with Tony Shearer. |
1:34.3 | Now that Doran has stepped down, he's on tour, visiting as many first folios as he can all around the world. |
1:38.0 | I look forward to showing him the Folgers copies before too long. |
1:48.1 | Here's Greg Doran in conversation with Barbara Bogave. Greg, it is so nice to talk to you again, and congratulations on your great reviews for |
1:52.7 | Symbling. |
1:53.7 | Thank you very much. |
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