Actor Sir Mark Rylance supports new and updated version of 'Romeo and Juliet'

Actor Sir Mark Rylance supports new and updated version of 'Romeo and Juliet'; ENGLAND: London: INT GVs actors rehearsing 'Romeo and Juliet' with gender roles reversed SOT GV Sir Mark Rylance (Actor and Intermission Youth Theatre Trustee) working with actors in rehearsal (unheard) Sir Mark Rylance (Actor and Intermission Youth Theatre Trustee) interview SOT - We must keep imagination and theatre and play free - there are a lot of political issues at the moment about correctness but it must be possible for people different things than who they really are and experience those things Q: On characters of a certain background being played by actors of same background - Theatre crying out for diversity - in my whole career I've worked with one black stage manager - there is a real issue that there hasn't been enough diversity in casting - at the moment one way they're getting a demand on being part of it is stopping white men playing black people - obviously - and increasingly, playing Jewish people, Arabian people - cross gender - I hope that's a stage we'll move past once we've got to something more fair and equitable GVs Rylance and actors in rehearsal Sir Mark Rylance interview SOT - (Slurring words) I didn't really form my words very well so I was sent to a speech therapist which helped me - I noticed my parents were very embarrassed and frightened for me - I think it was play acting - first with friends, copying television programmes like Star Trek - so you could improvise for hours and hours and you were Captain Kirk - if you pretended you were Captain Kirk you could speak CUTAWAYS reporter listening, reporter and Mark GV actors looking through scripts Close shot script Darren Raymond (Artistic Director, Intermission Youth Theatre) interview SOT GV Rylance with actor GVs actors rehearsing balcony scene