Monteleoni adds that he loves "reacting to the other two Richards."

"It's especially strange because I get to watch on stage as Ratcliff and react to this character that was me," he says.

"The three of us have really gone and found our own character," says Clarke, who plays Richard in the last third of the play. He adds that Packer "gives us a lot of autonomy."

Many of the actors praise Packer's open directing style.

"The way Tina works is so natural," says Francesco Brazzini, a 27-year-old cast member and professional actor from Florence, Italy, who plays Sir James Tyrrel. "She's confident about the text and about our sensibility about the text."

According to McClelland, Packer has let every actor's character grow and only recently intervened, unlike other directors cast member have worked with.

Packer introduces her ideas in an open-minded way, Monteleoni adds.

"[She] tells me the large directions she wants to go in," he says. "I think that's very liberating."