It has been all steam ahead at Glasgow’s Bard In The Botanics, where director Jennifer Dick was already in rehearsals for Measure For Measure before her version of Jane Eyre had even opened. “I’m a little tired,” she says, laughing off her exhaustion.
If it has been a full-on summer for her, the same is true for the actors: by night, Stephanie McGregor has been playing the lead in the Charlotte Bronte adaptation (running until 6 July); by day, she has been rehearsing Isabella in Dick’s stripped-down version of Shakespeare’s Measure For Measure.
“Stephanie has incredible natural instincts,” says the director. “I find her such an engaging performer. She makes things sound fresh and natural. She’s incapable of not being truthful. I am very envious of that.” [READ MORE]