K athryn Hunter has played King Lear, all 3 witches in Macbeth and a variety performer in Kafka's Monkey. The 69-year-old is working on an adaptation of Eurotrash about a mother and her son. The play is set in Switzerland and is about a family with Nazi ties.
H unter discovered her flexibility as a child watching a contortionist. As the witches in Macbeth, she is otherworldly. Her primate in Kafka's Monkey did the splits. She pared back her physicality with Peter Brook.
Hunter is one of the UK's most acclaimed Shakespearean actors. She is best known for leading men, but she won't rule out playing Lear again.
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