Episode 2.This episode follows on from the first as that recording was interrupted by the rehearsal of the rehearsal of the Canterbury Shakespeare Festival production of Othello. At the time the actors were chanting the lord’s prayer which inspired me to ask their director for an interview.Tom Houlton agreed to the interview and went on to speak about his beginning’s as a young actor and then his new found passion as a director at Kent University. He spoke of being inspired by Thomas Ostermeier and Mike Alfreds with the later having particular influence with his philosophy on the importance of the actor. Tom believes that each actor must bring his own character to the performance and employees different techniques to make each performance a performance in its own right.I really enjoyed this interview, because other than being an audience member of a few theatre performances I had no previous knowledge of acting or directing. It gave me a chance to explore something that would not normally be a point of interest for me.I hope it does for you too.This podcast is accompanied by my blog Canterbury Shakespeare FestivalPlease like, comment, subscribe and share on:

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