Summary
When Rachel Pickup was spotted wandering through Tollcross last August with a black eye and with her arms covered in bruises, eyebrows were raised. Here, after all, was one of the brightest of young acting talents, already doing Shakespeare at the Edinburgh International Festival. What could have happened?
The answer lay in Catalan director Calixto Bieito's irreverent, brutal but ultimately magnificent production of Hamlet, in which Pickup played an Ophelia as some kind of gangster's moll, a piece of society-girl eye-candy one minute, and the next, her fragile frame in threads, abused, battered and raped by the playboy prince.See the full content of this document
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Picking Up On the Lessons From the School of Hard Knocks
"It was hard work," Pickup gushes between shows in a draughty gym hall in Ellesmere Port, where she's appearing as Sylvia in the RSC's altogether flouncier production of Two Ge...
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