| Date: | Monday 2nd June |
| Time: | 7.30pm |
| Venue: | The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock |
| Admission: | £4.50, Conc. £3.50 |
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Event Details
DIRECTED BY AND STARRING AL PACINO
Looking for Richard is not a film version of the play about Shakespeare's hunchbacked villain. Pacino and his fellow actors perform perhaps a fourth of the play, but their acting is mostly for the purposes of discussion and demonstration:
This is a film about how to act and produce Shakespeare. It is also a documentary about some days in the life of an actor who loves his craft and brims with curiosity and good humour.
The camera follows Pacino for months or even years (his hair grows and is cut, his beard appears and disappears) as he discusses Richard III in workshops and coffee shops, from as far afield as Central Park in New York to Shakespeare's birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon (where the crew sets off a fire alarm).
He enlists many other actors in his ongoing seminar including the great John Gielgud, Kenneth Branagh and Vanessa Redgrave.
