Alan Rickman on Jaques: Performing Shakespeare

by Alan Rickman, Julian Curry

Alan Rickman discusses playing Jaques in Shakespeare's As You Like It , in this ebook taken from Shakespeare On Volume 2 - Twelve Leading Actors on Twelve Key Roles . In each volume of the Shakespeare On Stage series, a leading actor takes us behind the scenes of a landmark Shakespearean production, recreating in detail their memorable performance in a major role. They leads us through the choices they made in rehearsal, and how the character works in performance, shedding new light on some of the most challenging roles in the canon. The result is a series of individual masterclasses that will be invaluable for other actors and directors, as well as students of Shakespeare – and fascinating for audiences of the plays. In this volume, Alan Rickman re-evaluates the melancholic Jaques, a role he played in the Royal Shakespeare Company's 1985 production of As You Like It directed by Adrian Noble. This interview, together with the others in the series (with actors such as Ian McKellen, Simon Russell Beale, Patrick Stewart and Harriet Walter), is also available in the collection Shakespeare On Volume 2 - Twelve Leading Actors on Twelve Key Roles by Julian Curry, with a foreword by Nicholas Hytner.

43 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 27, 2017

About the author

Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman was an Emmy-, Golden Globe-, BAFTA- and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning English film, television and stage actor. He was perhaps best known to American film audiences for his roles as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films and Hans Gruber in Die Hard.

Reviews

[diana ᥫ᭡ · Rating 4 out of 5]

❝Although ‘vulnerable’ and ‘lonely’ are different words, they’re in the same language as ‘melancholy’. ❞ Aunque me pareció un poco complejo de leer, me gustó la forma en que describe a su personaje y también como lo entiende. Su forma de referirse a la escenografía y hasta cómo comparó los personajes de la obra de Shakespeare que fue parte, As You Like It, con los Beatles. Siempre querré a Alan Rickman y para mi siempre será extrañado.