Shaun Dingwall

Shaun: (Comparing television and stage work) Television and theatre are so different, aren't they? They are so far removed from each other that they are almost impossible to compare. I must say I love telly. When there is a good script, you have a great cast and time to do stuff, there is nothing like it, it's wonderful. But obviously theatre is a very extraordinary experience. Having time to rehearse, time to really pull something apart and put it back together again – I love that. It's that old cliché: the buzz; but it's just an extraordinary feeling. When it's going well, there is nothing like it, when it's not going well, then...!

Shaun: (Explaining how his friend Sean Holmes casted him in The Man Who Had All the Luck) He was telling me about this fantastic Arthur Miller play that no one had heard of and that the Donmar wanted him to do it. He was mulling things over and he said would you be interested in reading, and I said of course, and that was that, really.

Shaun: (answering if he had read the reviews for the play The Man Who Had All the Luck) I try to avoid them, which as you know is almost impossible.