In the Studio: Gregory Doran
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Acclaimed and award-winning Shakespearean, Gregory Doran, has directed every play in Shakespeare’s First Folio except Cymbeline. For him it’s one of Shakespeare’s most complex creations and he will be directing it for the first time as his swansong, as the Royal Shakespeare Company’s artistic director emeritus. From the start of the production’s rehearsal period until its first performance, we follow Gregory and his team as they get to grips with a play criticised and celebrated for its genre-busting, location-hopping, multiple plotlines, topped by the appearance of the god Jupiter descending from the heavens on an eagle.
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| 0:00.0 | Whether you call it football or soccer in your part of the world, |
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| 0:08.3 | This guy's recognised as the best in the world, teams. |
| 0:10.8 | The world will come in turn, boom! |
| 0:12.5 | And the biggest moments in African football. |
| 0:14.4 | The whole world, who remembers it? |
| 0:15.8 | I remember that yet. |
| 0:16.6 | It's not just African, I'm found. |
| 0:17.9 | Match of the Day Africa Top 10, |
| 0:19.7 | find it wherever you get your BBC podcast. |
| 0:25.6 | The performance in the World Shakespeare Theatre |
| 0:28.0 | is about to begin. |
| 0:30.0 | Please take your seats and enjoy the show. |
| 1:00.0 | For an, the production is his swan song as artistic director |
| 1:03.2 | emeritus of the Royal Shakespeare Company, |
| 1:05.3 | one of the UK's most celebrated institutions, |
| 1:08.2 | and it's the first time he's been at the helm of this particular play |
| 1:11.3 | in a long and highly celebrated directing career, I'm there. |
| 1:15.4 | Or rather, I'm here at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre |
| 1:18.5 | in Stratford upon Avan for the first performance of Simbling. |
| 1:22.2 | It's the final play in Shakespeare's first folio, |
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