Thanks, lovely
I think I might’ve been slightly OTT but it just hit a nerve, really. I do rant when I get going :P I just think it’s really important that anyone feels they can go to see anything if they want to. Getting people in to have that experience…it matters. How are you going to encourage new audiences if you say ‘Yes, but you can only go if you’re already interested in Shakespeare’. Maybe they’re not. But maybe they will be after they’ve been, and if it takes Tom Hiddleston to get them there to find that out, I don’t think anyone should be telling them not to.
Anyways, I’ve seen some amazing plays because I wanted to see a particular actor. I admit my first trip to the National Theatre was entirely Cumberbatch-fuelled. (I wish it hadn’t taken me so long, but I live a fair distance away and TIME and MONEY and stuff…) I fell in love with the place so much I now go and see as much as I possibly can there, regardless of who’s in it. I booked Blurred Lines the other day, I don’t even know who’s in that. Wouldn’t have happened without Benedict. So shoot me :P