Harriet Walter on She Speaks!

她发声!——哈丽特·沃尔特访谈录

5x15

艺术

2025-02-25

15 分钟
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Join us to celebrate 5x15's fifteenth birthday! To mark the occasion, we'll be back at The Tabernacle in February for a very special evening, featuring a truly stellar line-up of speakers: Harriet Walter, John Crace, Jonathan Freedland, Theresa Lola and Chloe Dalton. Expect captivating stories about Shakespeare's women, as reinterpreted by a beloved classical actress; the inspiring work of a German Jewish author writing during the Second World War; poetry and diasporic experience; a transformative encounter with an injured hare in the countryside and a satirical look at British politics - from the point of view of Herbie the dog. Harriet Walter is best-known as an actor, although she is also a published author. She has played 18 Shakespearean roles, mainly with the RSC, of which she is an honorary artist and governor. Harriet has also performed the works of Webster, Chekhov, Pinter, to name just a few, and created new roles in many other new works. Her most recent television work includes Succession, Killing Eve and The Crown. She was awarded a CBE in 2000 an Honorary Doctor of Letters at the University of Birmingham in 2001 and became a Dame in 2011. Her new book, She Speaks!, offers new parts for thirty of Shakespeare's women, letting them speak their minds, and reads between the lines to imagine what these women were really thinking. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories
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  • Five times 15.

  • All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

  • They have their exits and their entrances.

  • And one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

  • Sorry, wait a minute.

  • Where are the women?

  • I'm sorry, Shakespeare.

  • You said that the task of playing was to hold the mirror up to nature.

  • And surely that's all of us, isn't it?

  • All right.

  • I suppose you're a man of your time.

  • And you are telling the strange, eventful history that you know will interest your audience.

  • And that's a history that starts, once upon a time there was a man who fell in love.

  • Who had his moral fiber tested in battle, in leadership, who acquired power and then lost it,

  • either through ill judgment or the enemies he made or simply by getting old and losing his marbles.

  • All these men had wives and mothers and sisters and daughters.

  • And you do hold the mirror up to them,

  • but only inasmuch as they thwart or support the man who once upon a time was.

  • Well, that's very reductive, isn't it?

  • I know, because it's frustrating.