Richard Wilson: Talk, Workshop, Performance & More!
On Tuesday morning of 2nd February actor and director Richard Wilson - best known as 'Victor Meldrew' in One Foot in the Grave – gave a talk in the BTT to an audience of Carthusians on aspects of theatre and television drawn from his career.
Mr Wilson belied his 74 years by regaling us with lively insights ranging from the world of sitcom to modern political theatre. Afterwards he ran a workshop for Drama students and other school actors on ‘Improvisation as a means to thinking about acting’. Hugely respected as a director, Mr Wilson turned the theatre into a more intimate studio space and pushed the students through an intensive three hours of improvisation. Later on upwards of fifty students of the Culture Society watched Mr Wilson perform ‘Malvolio’ in Gregory Doran’s superb Twelfth Night in the West End – followed by an opportunity to meet several of the cast after the performance, who discussed their roles and aspects of the experience of putting on the show. The day was an extraordinary combination of a whole range of approaches to theatre, illuminating and exciting.
