#145 - Oliver Bennett & Morgan Watkins - They Were Trained To Perform The Greatest Works In Western Civilisation And They Say The Whole Thing Has Now Been Captured By Cowards And Liars
Oliver Bennett and Morgan Watkins are the co-founders of The Base and RADA-trained actors with nearly twenty years of experience in British film, television, and theatre.
In this conversation, we think out loud about:
What The Base is and why it exists
The campification of British theatre and the shame around the Western canon
The Edinburgh Fringe as a monument to progressive capture and why the RSC is rehearsing a lesbian Othello set against the climate crisis
Meeting Shakespeare on his own terms (the third position beyond progressive deconstruction and conservative nostalgia)
The working…
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