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*In Conversation: Shakespeare's Globe Website Interviews 2000 Season: Giles Block (Master of Play for Hamlet) and Gerald Freedman (Master of Play for The Antipodes).

*"King of the Globe". Mark signs up for another three years at the Globe: "There is still so much to do," he says. (The Guardian, August 2000)

*"From Globe to the Stars". Interview on Life x 3 and how Mark is an "inveterate romantic". (Daily Telegraph, November 2000)

*"Sex and the Shakespeare man". Hilarious interview about Intimacy and the Globe's Celtic season - and Mark eating sushi! (Evening Standard, May 2001)

*"Private View: Mark Rylance on the power and passion for Kabuki". By Mark, a wonderful piece on the fascinating Japanese theatre tradition and how it still ignites today. (Daily Telegrah, May 2001)

*"Dangerous Liaisons". A piece by Alexander Linklater about watching his real life partner Kerry Fox in Intimacy. (The Guardian, June 2001)

*"Truly, Madly, Explicitly". Interview with Kerry Fox, who has wonderful words for Mark and his superb acting in Intimacy. (The Observer, July 2001)

*"Not your usual stud". Mark on Intimacy and "Tudor fundamentalists" , interviewed by the ever so keen Heather Neill. (The Times, July 2001)

     ¶1990's Archive

*"Rough Magic" - a very nice interview article on Mark and Phoebus Cart's 1991 production of The Tempest.By Nick Curtis, 'Plays & Players', June 1991.

*Much Ado About Nothing, review of Matthew Warchus' 1993 production, Mark played Benedick. By Timothy Ramsden, 'Plays & Players', August 1993.

*"Angels & Insects" (by Michael Fox, Movie Magazine International) and "A Cloud of Butterflies" (by Katherine Lim), two reviews of Angels & Insects the movie.

*"Shifting Realities" an intersting article on the films of brothers Quay, directors of Institute Benjamenta..., by Suzanne Buchan, 'Zeitgeist'.

*An Interview with the brothers Quay about Institute Bnejamenta appeared on 'Sprocket', Cambridge University. By Richard Tucker.

*Some Internet Movie Database customer reviews (credited where possible) of Mark's most obscure films: The Grass Arena, Love Lies Bleeding and Institute Benjamenta.

*"Globe's Mystic Outsider" - a funny article on Mark being appointed as Artistic Director of the Globe. By Dalya Alberge, 'London Times', 2/9/96.

*"Global Warfare" - a beautiful article on rebuilding and opening the Globe, *lotsa Mark featured!!!*. By Claire Armistead, 'The Guardian', 16/8/96.

*"The Opening of the Globe" - Mark interviewed on The Two Gentlemen of Verona. By Michael LoMonico and nancy Goodwin, 'Shakespeare' magazine, Spring 1997.

*"Playing the Globe - Artistic Policy and Practice" - by Mark, written for 'Shakespeare's Globe Rebuilt'. A must-read!

*"Who's there?" - by Mark, written for the Globe's Festival of Firsts programme, 1997.

*Sovereign Magazine article about Sam Wanamaker and the 1997 Henry V.

*The 'Times' review of Henry V .

*The critic Benedict Nightingale had some unjustified complaints about the Globe's 1998 season...and here's what Mark answered to him on 'The Times'.

*In 1998 Mark was invited to join the Club of Budapest as a Creative Member. Now you might reasonably wonder What is the Club of Budapest and What does it do? But if you already know all this you can of course go straight to the television documentary interview with Mark (From the Club of Budapest website).

*A 1998 interview with the great Jane Horrocks (Little Voice, Absolutely Fabulous) who spoke briefly of her controversial Lady Macbeth (*touch wood*) in Mark's own 1996 version of the *Scottish Play*.

*"Meet Mr Cleo" - 'Times on line' tidbit announcing Mark was to play Cleopatra in the 1999 Globe Season.

*Review of the Shi-wa event: an evening of music and acting oganised in favour of the Free Tibet Campaign which took place at the Globe and involved artists such as Sting and James Taylor, the Lock, Stock and two Smoking Barrels actors, Vanessa Redgrave and Richard E. Grant. And Mark, of course.

*"Cleopatra comin' at ya!" - Mark interviewed on the Charter 88 website, by Greg Power.

*"Once More Unto the Breach with my father" - an interview with Richard Olivier.

*"In Conversation" - Shakespeare's Globe Website Interviews with people involved in the 1999 Anniversary Season: Mark #1 (about his plans for the season), Mark #2 (as Master of Play for Julius Caesar), Claire van Kampen (Master of Music in the Roman plays) and Giles Block (about directing Mark as Cleopatra).

*"MASTERPIECES" - Mark's director's notes on the programme of Julius Caesar.

*"Drag Queen Barges On" - a great interview article on Cleopatra. By Anthony Holden, 'The Observer', 25/7/99.

*"The Interview: Mark Rylance" - nice interview revealing interesting stuff: did you know that Steven Spielberg himself wanted Mark on Empire of The Sun? (which, by the way, is one of my favourite films ever...even without Mark :-P). By Richard Johnson, 'Sunday Mail', 25/7/99.

*Mark Rylance on Woman's Hour - transcript of a hugely enjoyable radio interview by Sheila McClennon, BBC Radio4, 10/8/99.

*"A real Role Model" - very clever article by Samantha Hill, 'TIME', 23/8/99. (Courtesy of Marco Guidi).

*"A sexual alchemy" - WONDERFUL interview by Nicholas Robins, 'Around the Globe', autumn 1999.

*"Anglo-Japanese Dialogue at the Globe" - short bit reporting living legend Japanese kabuki actor Nakamura Ganjiro, a long-time hero and friend of Mark's, attended a performance of Antony & Cleopatra at the Globe and was impressed with Mark's acting. The two colleagues met later on and discussed the theatricals traditions of Japan and Britain. (from the Embassy of Japan Newsletter #671, 12/10/99).

*Article about President of China Jiang Zemin's controversial visit to England and to the Globe, where he attended a rehearsal of Julius Caesar, and what Mark had to say about it...(Free Tibet website, October 1999).

*"Mark and the Globe on a roll" - by Heather Neill, 'The Daily telegraph'. Superb article with interview about Cleopatra and more.

     ¶1980's Archive:

*Review Cuttings of Mark's performances with the RSC (1982/83 - 1988/90).

*The Tempest, RSC yearbook 1982/83.

*The Tempest, article from "Shakespeare in Performance" about modern stagings of The Tempest (Derek Jacobi + others from the 1982 RSC production mentioned).

*Peter Pan, review, RSC yearbook 1982/83.

*Romeo & Juliet, article from "Shakespeare in Performance" about modern stagings of Romeo & Juliet (Mark's passionate, troubled Romeo featured).

*Hamlet, article from "Shakespeare in Performance" about modern stagings of Hamlet (very intersting, Mark's pyjama prince is treated with reverence; Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Daniel Day-Lewis, Laurence Olivier and Mel Gibson featured among many, many more).

*Two very sensitive and keen reviews of Romeo & Juliet and Hamlet from Plays & Players.

   (Last Updated July 2001. © Byron 1999-2001.)