The Picture Journal

Michael Xavier

If you could watch the first ever performance of any play, which would you pick? Macbeth in 1605. I love the play and would love to have seen the first audience reaction to it. What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever seen going on in an audience while performing? A lady tonight having the audacity to film me whilst I was half naked on a huge tablet device. Once I covered up, the filming stopped! As a child, what do you remember wanting to be when you ‘grew up’? At first I wanted to be an actor, then a policeman, then…

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Sarah Winter

Do you think it would be easier to play someone you met/know or someone historically well-known but where there is very little information available about their personal life? Playing someone historical definitely gives you a bit more freedom to play and invent the details of their personal life, though I think you have a responsibility to not go too overboard. I would love to play someone I know too as I love emulating voices and accents, but I would need that person’s permission to fail! What was the most interesting aspect of filming in Versailles in Versailles? Seeing George Blagden…

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