darest thou cassius, now; leap in with me in to this angry flood and swim to yonder point?” and we d go, oh, jeff! we d be going. but it would go on for five minutes! jeff actually went to the rsc, didn t he? he certainly did. did he lead the way for you in that way? well, i expect he certainly did. but i was taken to stratford, by my parents again, in.in. ..in1953, i think. and that would have been the very first shakespeare that you saw? no! oh, no. i d seen shakespeare a long, long time ago, when my brother peter played duncan at st peter s school. macbeth. and i was taken. yeah. and he walked in and said, what bloody man is that? and i thought, this is for me, this is absolutely for me. and then we went to stratford, when i was still bent on being a designer, and saw michael redgrave as lear. and it was the most incredible set, which was a great, huge, flat circle. and in the middle was a pile of stones which turned,
and i wanted to be a designer, scenic designer. that s what i set out to be. from a young age? from quite a young age, because we were taken to the theatre a lot, you know, we were taken to. i remember once going to see a cuckoo in the nest, and i laughed so. this couple was in bed and suddenly a chest at the end of the bed opened and a man stood up in vest and pants. and i was sick. i laughed so much, i was sick. my mother had to take me home. but the wonderful thing is that i was taken back a couple of nights later to see what happened. they laugh my pa used to be able to. he could recite the whole of hiawatha. and my. jeff, my brother, as i said, he wanted to be an actor, used to.he suddenly would launch into a huge, for once upon a raw and gusty day, the troubled tiber chafing with her shores; caesar said to me,
you were born in 193a and grew up in york. set the scene for us. what was family life like? my father was a doctor. ..and i had two brothers, older than me. and of course, at that time, no television, nothing like that. so we all had bikes and we made our own entertainment. my second brother, jeff, only ever wanted to be an actor. my oldest brother wanted to be a doctor, like dad, and i wanted to be a designer, scenic designer. that s what i set out to be. from a young age? from quite a young age, because we were taken to the theatre a lot, you know, we were taken to. i remember once going to see a cuckoo in the nest, and i laughed so. this couple was in bed and suddenly a chest at the end of the bed opened and a man stood up in vest and pants. and i was sick. i laughed so much, i was sick. my mother had to take me home.
long time ago, when my brother peter played duncan at st peter s school. macbeth. and i was taken. yeah. and he walked in and said, what bloody man is that? and i thought, this is for me, this is absolutely for me. and then we went to stratford, when i was still bent on being a designer, and saw michael redgrave as lear. and it was the most incredible set, which was a great, huge, flat circle. and in the middle was a pile of stones which turned, so there could be a cave or a throne or anything else. so nobody had to come in with anything, and the action was completely continuous. and that s when something about designing shut down in me. ijust remember looking at this set and thinking, never in my wildest dreams would i be able to think of something like that. and you thought from that moment that acting, rather than designing, that s the road you wanted to take? well, i don t suppose i thought it as consciously as that. i don t suppose it was
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