Our job is to make manifest ...

Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation.
 Mark Rylance

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But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought, and someone who had a motivation that equals the scope of the comedy and the tragedy in the plays.
 Mark Rylance
And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.
 Mark Rylance