Antony Sher is one of Britain’s most brilliant actors and authors. Since moving to England in 1968 from his native Cape Town, he has excelled in a huge range of roles in his 30-year career, and was knighted in 2000. His latest work is a masterly monologue Primo, Sher’s adaptation of If This is a Man (1947) by the great Holocaust chronicler Primo Levi. Antony Sher lived for many years as an outsider ‘gay, white, Jewish South African’ as he came to term...

Antony Sher played the title role in Gregory Doran’s critically acclaimed RSC production of King Lear and his stupendous performance was designated ‘a crowning achievement in a major career’. Sher describes his year researching, rehearsing and performing one of the greatest roles in English theatre, in conversation with Doran.