When I was beginning, a young actor could go from repertory company to repertory company. I did that and loved it. I was also lucky.
This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.
I always keep my repertorial hat on.
I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in.
The heart of the classical repertory is the Tchaikovsky-Petipa 'Sleeping Beauty,' and no ballet is harder to get right.
Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.
I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.
The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.
I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people.
Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers.
I come out of repertory theatre so I've been working under pressure my whole career.
Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette.
It's important that we have the traditional operas and the repertory, but we should also have something new.
During the war, my mother used to take me to the local repertory theatre on a Monday night, and we used to get two seats for the price of one, for nine pence, in the gods.
Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was going to have a home in London as well as in the Midlands, and all of those things were happening at that time.
Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew.
When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.
If you want to act, do school plays. If they're not there, create them, and the same with local repertory. They are the grounding for a lot of people. Make it happen.
I realized that after years of studying Shakespeare and Chekhov and regional repertory theater, what I really wanted to do was bust in and rob a bank and jump in the screaming getaway car and tear through the city and get in a shootout.
I went to a lot of theatre schools, got a lot of training, did a lot of repertory where you do a different play every night. I took a lot of voice, movement, and acting classes.
Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.
