I grew up in Ponca City, Oklahoma, where the idea of a career in theatre was ludicrous. How do you reconcile them? The answer, which came to me one evening as I was preparing for Manchester, was this: the only possible resolution is that the two, seemingly very different, are, in reality, the same thing.” That is what this book is about. Here is a sample from the book: “On the one hand, Shakespeare is poetic drama, which has its own form and rules on the other, never has it been more important or necessary for actors to be convincingly, unquestionably, realistic in performance. Sometimes the simplest thing is the best. A good director has sufficient knowledge, information, taste, and discretion to decide: what, apart from good actors, do I need to tell this story? Shakespeare is what he says and how he says it. He got them from somebody else except Love’s Labour’s Lost. The simplest thing in the world is the answer to the question, what is Shakespeare?. Ted van Griethuysen: The book is called What is Shakespeare? It begins with a very simple idea but it took me years to find it and it contains sixty years of information. Sophia Howes: I’d love to hear all about your new book.
One of D.C.’s most beloved performers, van Griethuysen brings a rare sense of continuity and history to his work. “It’s called What is Shakespeare? I’m just collecting compliments, I haven’t even looked for a publisher.” “I’ve just finished a book,” he announces as we sit down in the lobby. Ted van Griethuysen in A Comedy of Errors at Shakespeare Theatre Company. He’s now appearing as Egeon in The Comedy of Errors at the Shakespeare Theatre Company, an acclaimed production directed by Alan Paul. In fact, he is just as delightful in person as he is to watch on stage. Van Griethuysen is theatre royalty, but utterly without the arrogance that often accompanies such gifts. He won his seventh Helen Hayes Award in 2018 for his extraordinary portrait of André in the Florian Zeller play The Father, at Studio Theatre.
Shakespearean par excellence, he was given a special tribute at the 2017 ceremony. How do you interview a legend? This was the question I pondered on the way to the Lansburgh Theatre to interview Ted van Griethuysen, one of the finest actors of his generation.
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