Dee Evans on single-sex Shakespeare

19th October 2007

 

REGIONAL THEATRE: COLCHESTER

Dee Evans, the artistic director of the Mercury Theatre, Colchester, talks briefly about an all-male Coriolanus and an all-female Julius Caesar, running in rep there this autumn. Dominic Cavendish quizzes.

There has to be this type of theatre alongside the lighter, more jolly stuff – otherwise I don’t want to do it.