I'm A Jacket Man. And If I'm

I Admire David Hare As Much As I Admire Certainly Any Writer Ever. What I Like About His Writing Is It Is Very Conscientiously, In One Way, An Attempt To Reproduce The Way People Actually Speak, But It's Not Just An Attempt At Naturalism. It's Stylised And It's Heightened, To Great Effect. It's Elegant And It's Funny And That's The Way To My Heart, Frankly.

I'm Just Aware Of What I'm Thinking And Feeling But I Do Obviously Have To Get That To The Back Of The Auditorium. So There Are Things Like Projection And Filling The Room, And Not Dropping The Ends Of Lines - Technical Things Which Are Important, But I Don't Think They Change The Way I Feel In A Scene.

I Quoted David Hare One Of His Lines The Other Day To Illuminate Whatever Point We Were Trying To Make In The Conversation, And I Said 'what Play Was That?' And He Said 'it Was Your Line, You Said It About A Hundred And Fifty Times In The Vertical Hour.'

Standing In Front Of A Fake Mountain With Fake Snow Falling And Seven Girls Dressed As Santarettes Will Stay In My Memory.

I Have No Memory, Any At All, Of Actually Performing The Play, No Recall In Terms Of The Lines. I Can't Tell You Any Line From Any Play I've Ever Done.