If the president of the country is not actually saying something, allowing equality to happen, how could you expect to counsel kids not to bully other kids? If they're not seeing that their society sees gay people as equals, how could you tell them what they're doing is wrong? With all this stuff going on, with the "Don't ask, don't tell" and things like that, we are second-class citizens, definitely. It just seems to me that it's hypocritical for us as a culture to say, "Bullying is a terrible thing," when really, they are just reflecting what the society is doing.

I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

I don't feel I'm a compulsive person. I multitask. I'm really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me.

Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.

So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.

Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.

I'm quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.