Quarantine Panto Lives!

Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast · Dec 8, 2020 · 16m

RSC UK member James Percy (William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (abridged)) is playing “Silly Billy” in Dick Whittington at the King’s Theatre in Portsmouth, England, from December 8 through (God and COVID willing) January 3rd, 2021. James (left, on the right, with Austin and Joe Maudsley) talks about how they’re doing it, how it’s all going, who he’s playing, and how it feels to be back in a theatre putting on a play again. Featuring the challenge of "playing Tetris in the auditorium" to reduce capacity; rehearsing in the actual hall; how emotional it is to be back onstage again; the…