It’s lovely going to Oxford, it’s very difficult to film there as you’re doing a period drama in a city which is very crowded. Roger Allam Read Quote
As soon as you have two small children, they take up a lot of time and energy. Roger Allam Read Quote
One of the great things about doing a play, repeating it over and over again, is that you can practice. And you can get really quite good at it for a while. Roger Allam Read Quote
When you are doing pantomime, you’re not immersing yourself in anything terribly deep. Roger Allam Read Quote
I was in ‘Babes in the Wood’ at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow in the Eighties. I was the villain – the wicked Sheriff of Nottingham. Roger Allam Read Quote
You are in a strange world in pantomime, where you are allowed to step out and talk to the audience and do silly gags. Sometimes I feel like a cartoon character. Roger Allam Read Quote
I played Benedick in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ nearly 30 years ago at the RSC, alongside Susan Fleetwood as Beatrice, and I loved every minute. Roger Allam Read Quote
I invented this wonderful death scene for Javert of going down on my knees and then leaning back like a limbo dancer to make it look as if I was falling off a bridge. I did it eight times a week for nearly a year and I’ve had trouble with my knees ever since – they don’t even allow me to jog these days. Roger Allam Read Quote
