Episode Detail: Shakespeare - Changing Stages
Part 1 of six: British director Richard Eyre begins this six-hour review of 20th-century English-speaking theater in the 16th century, with Shakespeare. “The luck of the British theater is that we had Shakespeare,” says Eyre, who traces how 20th-century actors and directors interpreted the Bard. He also elicits comments from such luminaries as John Gielgud, Peter Brook and Judi Dench, and sums up Shakespeare's importance thusly: “He's our theatrical DNA..”
