i am pleased to have mark rylance at this table for the first time. what a nice tribute.id this happen, these two plays coming here for you to show your stuff? did it happen? it has taken quite a few years. in particular, the artist, the director and the clothing designer, set and clothing designer and the musical director, and the kind of core players were people that worked with me a lot when i was artistic director at the globe. and when my time finished, my 10 years finished, i immediately supposet wanting to, i preserve or carry on the , essential core work of what we did, which was a very careful, and i hope rigorous, attempt to explore what i call original playing practices. what we know of them from shakespeare's day. so it took a long time. we had to figure a way of mounting two productions that would be popular enough to raise enough money to make a whole new wardrobe of clothes as the elizabethans spent their money of what they wore on their backs. six live musicians. charlie: what was the term you use in terms of original production? mark: original playing pra

with -- stephen: it is remarkable not just because it is the greatest stage acting in the world, mark rylance richard the third, it is a double bill. the great sam wanamaker, we had to bring in slightly. the globe had been like a table. and tvlike a wooden o, is a wooden o. that is like expanding it. anywayhave half of it his people standing. it is the yard, and they are called the groundlings. they would pay a penny. there were grander people, aristocracy would sit and watch. is more or less the same now. for a long time in line to get a standing up seats , because they love it. and the relationship you have with the audience is, there is nothing like it. you realize every soliloquy is a conversation. charlie: it is an all-male cast. stephen: it is like an original practices cast. so every single element of the play is as far as drastically we know, absolutely as it would have been in shakespeare's day. we also note 12 night was performed indoors, in a temple, one of the holes, medieval holes the -- halls used by lawyers. we know what it looks like because it has not changed. and it happened