Mad In Craft

There’s a certain excitement and dread in the air as we approach that scene: the mad scene. Annie, our director, kindly reminds us that we need not, as actors, snap ourselves to represent Ophelia’s inner state as she wildly delivers flowers and melodies....

A Musing on Madness & Grief

“For being not mad but sensible of grief My reasonable part produces reason How I may be delivered of these woes…”King John III.iii Late a few nights ago, having scoured my script for the umpteenth time, my brain asked myself a question before bed:...