This is an extract of the Director Talk event with Gregory Doran, chaired by Paul Allen in front of an audience at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon on 4 Aug 2008. One of the early ...

Gregory Doran, artistic director of the RSC delivers the 2016 Richard Dimbleby Lecture from the University of Warwick, The Shard, in London.

On a distant island a man waits. Robbed of his position, power and wealth, his enemies have left him in isolation. But this is no ordinary man, and this no ordinary island. Prospero is a magician ...