International friendlies, they mean something, but what you want is to play on the biggest stage, play under the lights.
Doing a play in New York is ticking off a major, major bucket list thing for me.
'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
A stage play ought to be the point of intersection between the visible and invisible worlds, or, in other words, the display, the manifestation of the hidden.
It's a play where something went wrong, 'Cause it's five hours, twelve minutes long. If you sit there, my friend, From beginning 'til end, Then your bladder better be strong!
Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.
A 300pp novel can easily become a 200pp novel by printing with smaller type; a 100pp screenplay can potentially become a film of between 60-140 minutes in length; a 200pp stage play could be performed in anything from 30 minutes to four hours. For all these media, the script length is agnostic to the final work.
Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni.
When I was little, I saw the play 'Les Miserables' on Broadway, I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen.
I was offered a part in the stage version of 'Calendar Girls,' but the part is so predictable. It just makes me angry when I read the script.
In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.
A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
Everyone covering 'Stage Beauty' asks me: 'What's it like to wear a dress?'
My first school play was 'Perkin and the Pastry Cook' that my primary school put on, and I played a boy, and it was so much fun, and I'd love to play a boy again. I think that would be great.
When I was doing 'A Raisin in the Sun' with Sean Combs, we began in bed, and he would give me 10 kisses and an 11th for luck before the play began.
I would love to do a drama. I did a couple of episodes of The Good Wife, which is more of a drama. I really liked that; I thought it was interesting. A lot of my favorite comedies play out as dramas.
In actual fact, I doubled 'Twelfth Night' and 'The Avengers'. I was going backwards and forwards to Stratford. I played matinees Wednesday, matinee and evenings Saturdays, and the other days of the week, I was filming in Elstree.
'Man and Superman,' first performed in 1905, is by common consent one of George Bernard Shaw's greatest and most significant plays, yet hardly anybody performs it today, for the understandable reason that an uncut performance runs for about five hours.
One of my favorite things about 'Spring Awakening' is that it is enjoyable and important for both kids and adults to see.
It was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated very clearly.
Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.
Now that you've got me right down to it, the only thing I didn't like about The Barrets of Wimplole Street was the play.
I would consider directing. I think directing myself would be tough, but I'm definitely interested in directing. I might start off directing a play before I move to a film.
I'm fascinated to see how 'Black Watch' connects with an American audience.
I would love to do a non-musical Broadway or Off-Broadway play.
