The Hollow runs Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays through June 1st. But I’ve already started work on my next project: From June 28th through August 3rd of this year, I’ll be appearing with Shakespeare & Company as Bolingbrooke in Richard II and as Oliver du Boys in As You Like It. (The company is also producing Servant of Two Masters.)
These shows run in repertory, and this’ll be my first experience with that. I’m looking forward to it. I’m also looking forward to taking a large bite out of Shakespeare. Working with his words and his characters is a pure joy.
Lucas Gerstner is playing the title role in Richard II and Orlando in As You Like It.
Lucas and I first worked together earlier this year in Henry V at Theater in the Round: He played the Duke of Orleans and I played the Constable of France.
We’re currently working together on The Hollow: I’m playing Inspector Colquhoun and he plays Edward Angkatell — one of the suspects.
As Lucas puts it, our theatrical career together seems to be deteriorating: We started out on the same team. Then I suspected him of murder. Now I’m trying to kill him. Twice.
I figured that it could only go uphill from here. But then I realized there was always the chance that I could end up directing him in a production of Sartre’s No Exit and literally send him to hell.
