Kathryn Hunter

Kathryn Hunter

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Olivier Award-winning Actress and Director Kathryn Hunter is renowned for her work with physical theatre, notably with the pioneering theatre company Complicité, co-founded by her late husband Marcello Magni. She talks to Akram about her work with Marcello and how movement has always been a cornerstone of her approach to acting.

Shakespeare has also been a cornerstone of Kathryn’s career and she discusses her approach to playing the “Everest” of roles, King Lear, in two different productions spanning a 25-year timeframe. She also talks about how different stages make her move differently and recalls how screenwriter Joel Cohen wanted her to combine the physicality of a crow combined with a standing stone for his film The Tragedy of Macbeth.

And Kathryn tells Akram how a serious accident left her with life-changing injuries but how this resulted in her thinking anew about how she could communicate physically.

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(Director), Akram Khan (Self), Kathryn Hunter (Self)

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