I think they've knocked down what was on the street, but they're going to have a kind
of monument to the theatre in the kind of lower level of their building and a celebration of it, basically.
I have been here last year and I didn't think about Shakespeare at all when I was here, so I'm a little bit ashamed now.
I think it's one of those places you wouldn't necessarily associate with Shakespeare anyway, and I think all of London is a little bit that way,
even when you go to the historical bits, you wouldn't necessarily think that that history exists, because I wasn't taught about it in school or anything.
That's a pity, because kids living here could have known about it.
I think it's something to do with that. When you have a certain thing on your doorstep, you don't necessarily appreciate it straight away.
When we had school trips, we wouldn't go to these kind of places, I don't think.
In Austria, the kids are forced to live with Mozart, so they knew perfectly where he was born, where he was living, because they just have to.
It's not a decision, but I don't think that they do it happily, so maybe if you discover someone by yourself after passing school, it's maybe better.
It's amazing the kind of level of insight into the psyche.
And at the same time, in which language this was shown, in what kind of beauty, even there are dark things to show.
The dark sides, they're shown very aesthetically.
Yeah, everything has a poetic quality which makes you pay more attention to it, even if it's...
It takes it on a completely different level, I think.
Yeah, it makes it very...
Reading the plays made me pay attention, I think, to little small bits of language, little nuances that language has.
Not just the English language, but languages generally, I think, has really helped with that process of coming to make things up, to write them, I think, as well.
You know, this is my experience of seeing Shakespeare from the angle of different languages, made a different view of him.
But in the end, I would say the original is the loudest voice for me, for all the others.
So I think this is a building that he owned towards the end of his life.
When I was kind of looking up some of the places we could go to, the piece of research I was looking at was saying that he left this to his daughter when he died.
So yeah, this is the space up here.
I don't know whether it's been... I mean, it must have been changed inside.
Yeah, and I don't know what of the original structure remains.
It would be interesting to look that up, too, and find out.
You can see a little bit in the windows.
Yeah, they're slightly strange, small, the ones at the top.
It's narrow, so they didn't change it a lot, I think, inside.
It looks old, restorative.
And if you look at this little window there, that's looking really funny.
They closed the window, the big one.
I really like this is a theatre space because they do the kind of collected works, or they do the most popularly staged plays.
But also they do new stuff, stuff that kind of sits in the same kind of area or theme, and then really contemporary stuff as well.
When you said we were ending here, the great thing is that Shakespeare didn't end here.
No, true.
But it's moving on after 400 years, which is quite remarkable.
Yeah, it's a miraculous thing, I think, to have that impact over such a long period of time.
But that's because of the fundamental human motivations and drama and psychology, which he has caught in very easy, very authentic.
