John Douglas Thomspon (Act I)

Jonny talks to perhaps the most celebrated classical actor in America today, John Douglas Thompson. No perhaps about it (if you read his reviews), John makes Jonny extremely jealous when he considers the critical raptures that JDT routinely receives. John has played Othello SEVEN times and isn’t done with it yet. But only if a woman directs it. He has trenchant thoughts on critics, won’t do a play that involves the occult, acts like a master pickpocket, honours his parents through performance, never knows if Othello will kill Desdemona tonight or not. All this despite living another successful professional life until he was nearly thirty. Find out which play made him want to be an actor. And the incident that cracked open what it would take to be good at it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.