New Delhi, June 7 -- For most of her career, Virginia Gay was the one standing in the light. She played the villainous Rumi in the Australian comedy Colin from Accounts, directed the Adelaide Cabaret Festival for two consecutive years, wrote and starred in Cyrano, and spent long enough on television that a generation of Australian viewers knows her face before they know her name. The transition to directing Shakespeare, she told The Guardian in an interview published Sunday, did not feel like an arrival. It felt, she said, like a different kind of performance - one where the discipline is in staying invisible.

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