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All Light on the night; Terry Grimley meets John Light, the actor from Birmingham with a trans altlantic film career and a leading role in the RSC's new production of Julius Caesar.(Features)

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20060515
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Byline: Terry Grimley

This was something new for me: the first interview I have ever done which had to be wound up so the interviewee could be taken to hospital.

John Light, who is playing Brutus in Julius Caesar at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, had just turned his ankle at the end of a rehearsal. Though he stoically soldiered on through our meeting with the aid of an ice-pack, a visit to casualty was deemed advisable.

Bizarrely, Mark Antony (Ariyon Bakare) had already started preview performances on crutches, having come off his bike. Perhaps the cast should have ...

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