Why did actor Dan Spielman leave the Sydney Theatre Company to become a labourer?
He talks to Robin Usher about returning to the stage. DAN Spielman is one of Australia’s finest young actors, yet for the past two years he was relieved to be working as an unskilled labourer after the intensity of full-time performing in elite company with the Sydney Theatre Company. ‘‘It was very curious that at the end of the day labouring I would be exhausted but not puzzled,’’ he says. ‘‘It was a concrete world contained in a finite working day.’’ But that simple contentment has ended. He is now rehearsing his first theatrical role since he left the STC, playing a medieval miller in David Harrower’s Knives in Hens. ‘‘I am rediscovering with fresh eyes the unremitting nature of theatre work,’’ Spielman says. ‘‘It certainly doesn’t stop when you leave the building because you are digesting options all the time.’’ While he has made a commitment to the play’s Melbourne season, as well as its later transfer to Adelaide, he is unsure whether his return to the stage is permanent. ‘‘I’m v
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