1. What’s your name and where do you come from?
Jonathon George, Yorkshire.
2. Who are you playing in Hedda Gabler?
George Tesman.
3. What’s your favourite play?
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee. But that can shift pretty frequently.
4. If you could play any role in any play who would you play and why?
Iago in Othello (when I’m the right age); because he’s the bad guy you hate to love.
5. What are you most excited about discovering in this new production of Hedda Gabler?
How the characters will interact when the play shifts up a gear.
6. What was your first ever theatrical experience?
Off stage: seeing Billy Elliot back in the 90s. On stage: playing an anonymous cloaked figure in Man of La Mancha.
7. Who is your inspiration?
In life? My fiancé (I know, sappy. Get over it). Theatrically: Bryan Cranston.
8. What’s the best thing about being an actor?
Pretending to be far more interesting people than myself.
9. What did you see the last time you went to the theatre?
Dear Evan Hanson. The cast are incredible.
10. If you were going to destroy Lovborg’s manuscript how would you do it?
With fire. I think Hedda has the right idea.
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