You 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 CallowEverything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.
Simon CallowI went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.
Simon CallowI love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That's why we do theatre, it's because we love contact with the audience. We love the fact that the audience will change us. The way the audience responds makes us change our performance.
Simon Callow