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Chapter 6 - An Actor’s Perspective on Restoration Shakespeare
- By Louis Butelli
Edited by Amanda Eubanks Winkler, Syracuse University, New York, Claude Fretz, Sun Yat-sen University, China, Richard Schoch, Queen's University Belfast
Book:

Performing Restoration Shakespeare

Published online:

28 January 2023

Print publication:

26 January 2023, pp 118-131
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Summary

The veteran classical actor Louis Butelli played Duncan in the 2018 production of Davenant’s Macbeth at the Folger Theatre, a collaboration between the Folger Shakespeare Library and the research project ‘Performing Restoration Shakespeare’. In this interview with Richard Schoch, Butelli explores the challenges that Restoration Shakespeare presents to a contemporary actor, including unfamiliarity, bias toward Shakespeare’s original versions, heightened language and the interpolation of music. Drawing on his own research into Restoration theatre, Butelli also reflects on his experience of collaborating with a team of scholar in the production of Davenant’s Macbeth. In contrast to the chapter by actor Kate Eastwood Norris, this chapter investigates how actors can learn from documentary sources about Restoration theatre (e.g., Colley Cibber’s Apology) to enhance their own work today.