Life in a professional rehearsal room has changed a lot since David Bond was an actor. The creative process he remembers was one in which the director strived to realise their vision of an extant play, with the actors in service to that.
It's almost 30 years since he performed onstage at the Gate Theatre in Notting Hill. Nowadays, that didactic approach has been replaced by something much more collaborative. Actors graduating into the industry today are just as likely to be developing work alongside living writers, making devised work, and navigating a range of new multimedia formats, as they are to be ‘giving’ their Ophelia or Hamlet.
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