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Michael Boyd: We worked with about 30 actors over nearly three years on
the RSC’s last complete cycle of the history plays. All the actors were in
at least seven of those plays and learnt a huge number of roles. Halfway
through the project, we left the first four plays behind for nearly a year.
And we had to revive them. The actors began to get anxious about whether
they would remember them: not only their principal roles, but the roles they
understudied - thousands of lines, hundreds of states of emotions. An
extraordinary feat of spatial memory was required, too: they had to remember
where to go. Where am I? Backstage or front of house?
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