Johnny Flynn on composing for 'As You Like It', Shakespeare's genius, and the charm of the nyckelharpa
It's night-time and there are strangely beautiful noises emanating from the back rooms of Shakespeare's Globe in London. Through a stage door, down a winding passage far beyond the pomp and glamour of the main stage, in a round rehearsal room that by day is one of the stops on the theatre's guided tours, is a group of musicians who have dedicated themselves to learning the idiosyncratic ways of Elizabethan musical instruments.