Meet the Cast – Sophia McLean

1. What’s your name and where do you come from?
I’m Sophia McLean and I come from Grampian in the Scottish Highlands.

2. Who are you playing in Hedda Gabler?
Hedda Gabler

3. What’s your favourite play?
Tricky! Anything by Tena Štivičić or Chekhov.

4. If you could play any role in any play who would you play and why?
Mrs Hardcastle in ‘She Stoops to Conquer’ as she’s a total fruitcake and love her for it.

5. What are you most excited about discovering in this new production of Hedda Gabler?
The shifting power dynamics.

6. What was your first ever theatrical experience?
The Royal Lyceum’s ‘Beauty & The Beast’ in Edinburgh. I was 7 and the idea of going to Edinburgh was pretty exotic, then being met with such magic, I completely fell in-love with theatre.

7. Who is your inspiration?
My Grannie Vera; Middlesbrough Spot-Welder, not to be messed with. And Patti Smith.

8. What’s the best thing about being an actor?
Getting to jump inside other folk’s heads and end up researching the oddest/ most brilliant things.

9. What did you see the last time you went to the theatre?
David Greig’s adaptation of Stanisław Lem’s ‘Solaris’ at Lyric Hammersmith.

10. If you were going to destroy Lovborg’s manuscript how would you do it?
Dowse it in lamp oil and burn it in a fire-pit. Dig the ashes into the flowers, and then something good’s come of it!