... transcript of an interview with Harold Pinter, who himself began his career as an actor and writer in the fifties and even speaks fondly of weekly rep, and Shellard himself, who strongly questions whether the fifties were really a cultural wasteland. As ...

... These concern voice, gesture and timing. But making sense of the play, finding the right way, or even an individual way, of speaking Shakespeare's verse, for instance, is what delineates the great actor. Many have specialised in cer tain types of role and ...