“What I really want to do is have a venue. I want to run a performance venue. This is all a dream at the moment. Maybe I will have a bookshop as part of the venue. But I just would like it to be a space that I can put whatever I want, dance or music or performance, exhibition (in it), a creative space. I’d like to have that in my life at some point. Just (need to) find the time and space.”

“Slightly built and tender-faced, Whishaw gives off no such macho vibe; he could easily pass for a fey adolescent. But in the theatre, alchemy can sometimes be achieved from the inside out. Aged somewhat by a beard, slicked-back hair, and sturdy vocal projection, Whishaw seems to expand his corporeal being to fit the contours of Proctor’s rage, his earthiness, his struggle to deny the sexual temptation his former lover and head witchcraft accuser Abigail presses upon him.”