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Rupert Stonehill
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Rupert sees theatre for a living. So we can trust his keen eye to find the productions that may fly under your radar, as well as the brightest emerging talent. He adores London’s Almeida Theatre: “It’s intimate, its programme is so varied, it’s brilliant for celeb-spotting and, more so than most theatres, is putting real emphasis on nurturing the next directors coming through. Rupert Goold has done a brilliant job in his tenure as AD – I make sure I see nearly everything they have to offer.”
Copenhagen by Michael Frayn is his favourite play, and the best thing he’s ever seen is Oresteia at The Almeida in 2015—adapted and directed by Robert Icke. He always comes back to this line from Shapespeare’s King Lear: “O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars. Are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man’s life is cheap as beast’s.”
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