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‘Performers need to build a profile on TV before landing West End theatre roles’ – Richard Armitage
By: Georgia Snow
Richard Armitage has claimed performers need to have built a profile through television work before being cast in lead roles on the West End stage.
The actor admitted he himself had opted for television work early on his career because he felt that stage work was dependent on star casting.
“It’s incredibly difficult to fill a theatre with material that isn’t Mamma Mia!,” he said, adding: “When they’re spending their hard-earned £85 for a theatre ticket, it’s got to have something to pull them in and whatever it takes to fill a house is what we do.”
Best known for roles in The Hobbit and BBC’s Spooks, Armitage explained that he went into television and film because he thought it would “afford [him] more opportunity to take on more important and bigger roles in theatre further down the line”.
Armitage was speaking at the premiere screening of the Old Vic’s collaboration with Digital Theatre on The Crucible, in which he starred earlier this year.
Filmed during the play’s run, the screenings will now be shown at cinemas across the country on December 4 and 7.
“I kind of got lost down a road of TV and film so it’s great to come back to theatre,” he added.
The Crucible was directed by Yael Farber, who said that the experience of filming one of her plays “might be the beginning of a relationship with film” for her.
“I have been a monk of the theatre all my life and I don’t even dare flirt with film, but this was a remarkable first engagement…However I do think it has to be carefully managed so that it doesn’t become some kind of replacement of the live transmission,” she said.
http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/2014/12/ ... -armitage/