When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.
Simon CallowVery often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening.
Simon CallowYou could say Shakespeare is so extraordinary precisely because he was so ordinary. He had all the usual anxieties and understandings of what it is to have children, lose children, get married, struggle to make a living and so on.
Simon CallowTo enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.
Simon Callow