Bryony-Rose Brookman returns to her home town of Worthing this summer to make her debut with Rainbow Shakespeare in Highdown Gardens in her very first Shakespeare.
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00:00Good afternoon, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Cicero's Newspapers. Now really
00:06lovely to speak to Bryony Rose-Brookman. Now, it's exciting time, isn't it? Because a year
00:11ago you saw your first ever Shakespeare, now you are in your first ever Shakespeare. You
00:16recently moved to London, but tell me back to your home town, were they to do Rainbow
00:22Shakespeare, two plays in July, which is Midsummer Night's Dream and The Winter's Tale.
00:30Yes.
00:31Now, it just so happened your first Shakespeare you saw was A Midsummer Night's Dream.
00:36Yes, I was, it's very lucky actually that that's the first ever Shakespeare play I saw
00:42and it was only a year ago and that's the one I'm doing now. So it just makes it all
00:47the more exciting that the first Shakespeare play I saw, the one that made me fall in
00:52love with Shakespeare, is the one that I'm now doing as my first Shakespeare job. It
00:57really is incredible.
00:58That's fabulous, coming full circle. But it was at the Globe, wasn't it? And it was truly
01:02special. What made it so good when you look back on it then? What sticks in your memory?
01:07It was, I mean, the stage and the costumes, it was just so extravagant and magical. And
01:16the way that the actors portrayed the story, it was, it was, it was relatable. Like, obviously
01:25they did it in Shakespeare's language, which can be hard to understand. But the way they
01:30did it, they sort of made it modern. And, like changing the words, presumably. Yeah,
01:37without changing the words, but they really emphasised the important words so that you've
01:42got the story. Even if you didn't understand Shakespeare, the story was very clear. And
01:47it was just, it was spectacular.
01:50And you're playing Helena. When you look back on that Globe production, do you have clear
01:54memories of whoever was playing Helena in that?
01:57Yes, she was absolutely brilliant. She was so cheeky. She was, I wouldn't have thought
02:03that Helena would be so funny. She had me cracking up. She was so funny. Very witty.
02:13Very quick with the way that she delivered the lines. And I will definitely be taking
02:18some inspiration from that. She was so, so good.
02:22Yeah. And very quickly after your first Shakespeare, of course, you have the second with A Winter's
02:26Tale.
02:27Indeed, indeed.
02:28A very different role.
02:30Yes. And that show is very different as well. But yes, the role of Perdita is very different
02:38to Helena in that Helena's quite desperate to get Demetrius's attention. But yet it comes
02:47so naturally to Perdita. She's so in love. And she is just literally described in the
02:56play as a lovely flower. She's beautiful. She's caring. She's like the perfect flower
03:04of a girl.
03:05You're going to have a fantastic month. So is that you hooked for life now on Shakespeare,
03:09do you think?
03:10Yeah, that's me hooked for life on Shakespeare. I will be booking a lot more tickets to go
03:15and see more plays at the Globe, I think.
03:17Absolutely. And making sure you're in them as well.
03:20Exactly, exactly. It's my first year. Who knows? Be back next year.
03:24Brilliant. Well, lovely to speak to you. Good luck for the shows in Worthing. And yeah,
03:29have a great time back in your hometown.
03:32Thank you very much. I will.
03:33Thank you.
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