David Beames

“At the moment, I have to say the preparation is all in the text. I haven’t really got down to what you could call ‘character study’ yet… Some people are able to learn text very quickly, it comes and goes for me. Modern text I can learn very very quickly...but once you know exactly what you’re saying in Shakespeare, because it’s not always obvious, I find it easier to learn it when you’ve got a thought pattern, when you see what it all means. ”