Harriet Walter Talks About Playing Prospero in the Donmar’s Shakespeare Trilogy

Synopsis: Interview. Harriet Walter talks to TheatreVOICE’s Heather Neill about playing Prospero in the final part of Phyllida Lloyd’s The Shakespeare Trilogy at the Donmar Temporary theatre at King’s Cross. In 2012, Phyllida Lloyd’s all-female production of Julius Caesar placed the play in a women’s prison. In 2014, Phyllida reunited with actor Harriet Walter for Henry IV, the second instalment in what was then announced as a trilogy of works from these major artists. The project concludes with The Tempest. This interview was recorded on 8 December 2016 at the King’s Cross temporary theatre
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Audio
Recording date: 8 Dec 2016
Duration: 17 mins

Production type: Documentary/Educational/News
Plays: Tempest, The
Subjects: Drama
Keywords: Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); All-female casts; Gender reversal

Notes: Recordings can be listened to online at the Theatrevoice archive: http://www.theatrevoice.com/the_archive.
General: Theatrevoice is a website for audio content about British theatre, and features journalists from across the UK as well as press and practitioners from across the theatre industry. It was set up in 2003 to see if theatre could be talked about in a new way: allowing critics to be more expansive than the usual space constraints of the print media allowed. In 2008, V&A Theatre Collections and Rose Bruford College, London agreed to support the site in partnership.

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