Some years ago, in a previous existence I was a school teacher. And I took a school party up to the Globe Theatre to see Richard III and it was an all-female production and I did wonder a little bit at the time not just what the children would make of that. But what I would make of that and how I would handle an all-female production of such a production. And yeah, I needn’t have worried because not just me, but I think everybody in the audience within ninety seconds of the play. Watching, the female cast and Kathryn Hunter in particular, was astounding as Richard. I forget the actor’s name who played Buckingham but there was a moment within the piece and forgive me.I can’t remember the exact Shakespearean lines or even the scene, but there’s a moment where Richard is pretending to be all humble and saying, Oh no, I can’t be King and Buckingham persuades the people that Richard should be King. And what happened was that the actor playing Buckingham turned to the audience and encouraged the audience to chant the name of Richard. And she did it like this: Richard Richard, Richard, Richard, Richard, Richard and stopped and all the audience had joined in. All of us, me included had all joined in and we were all frozen doing a Nazi salute.That put chills down my spine because I became implicated in effectively electing a dictator and it made me realize that the power of demagogy and how how easily we are persuaded just by simply something that’s presented as a bit of fun and and a bit of jollity. And what do we do? We end up with a murderous sociopath as King. So, yeah, that was a that was a stunning moment In theatre for me and made me want to do more and made want to go back to the theatre and do stuff that had that kind of an impact.