As this year is the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, the BBC chose Greg Doran, the Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company to deliver the annual Richard Dimbleby Lecture. Littered as it was with anecdotes and quotes from the Bard's work, one item stood out.
Doran explained that he joined the RSC in 1987 as an actor playing Solanio in The Merchant of Venice and fell in love with Shylock. He was being played by Anthony Sher and the two are still together. At the top, there they are together on stage. Sher is immediately recognisable but Doran has changed an awful lot.
It was in 1988 (28th May on my ticket stub) that I saw the production with the same cast when it transferred to the Barbican in London. Yes, I still have the programme.
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