OurShelves: Backstage with Dame Eileen Atkins

<p><strong>Backstage with Eileen Atkins</strong></p><br><p><strong>How does the writing we love create the roles we perform?</strong></p><br><p>Join Dame Eileen Atkins, stage and TV star, three-time Olivier Award winner and screenwriter of ‘Upstairs, Downstairs’ and ‘Mrs Dalloway’ talk about her autobiography,&nbsp;<em>Will She Do?&nbsp;</em>She tells Lucy Scholes how she created the first entertainment about servants inspired by her parents’ lives, how a casting director got her addicted to the books of Virginia Woolf and how women in repertory theatre felt in charge.</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>