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Article: Rose Rage: a modern spin on Shakespeare.(Arts)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- August 31, 2001
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Byline: Phil Key
The son of a famous theatrical knight - and a talent in his own right - tells arts editor Phil Key how he's boiled down the Bard into a perfectly-digestible retelling of a rarely-performed work
IT was only natural that Edward Hall would take up a theatrical career.
He was, after all, the son of Sir Peter Hall, the director who helped found both the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre.
So after university at Leeds, Edward went off to drama school - to train as an actor.
"It was only when I was there that I discovered I couldn't act, " he says. "I turned to directing instead so it all ...