Actors Tonderai Munyevu and Kudzi Hudson talk us through the exploration of text, culture and character they performed throughout the workshop process of Gliwice Hamlet. Singling out a number of aspects of the process – from the presence of academics and translators to the joys of working with a translation that wasn’t ashamed of its idiosyncrasies, to the freeing ‘lack of pretext’ as to why black actors were doing a Polish play – Hudson and Munyevu describe their journey towards a text they loved but didn’t always understand: ‘it’s a given that there are things an audience won’t understand, in any theatrical text – so therefore, theatrically, what are we going to about it?’