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Patrick Stewart
Shakespeare veteran Patrick Stewart talks about finally having the opportunity to play the title role in Macbeth, some 50 years after he first memorized the play's great speeches, and chronicles the production's swift journey from Chichester to London to Brooklyn to Broadway. He also talks about his decades-long association with the Royal Shakespeare Company, including his appearances in multiple productions of such plays as The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Antony and Cleopatra and Titus Andronicus; the impetus behind his one-man adaptation of A Christmas Carol -- including its interminable first performance; his enthusiasm for playing Prospero in The Tempest with an American cast in Central Park and on Broadway; the thrill of creating a role in Arthur Miller's The Ride Down Mount Morgan; why he's "finished" with certain roles and still hopes to play others yet again; and some of the plays he's looking forward to doing in the next few years, including a nascent project with his film nemesis Ian McKellen.
Original air date - May 9, 2008
Running Time - 59:32
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