A brilliant Richard III and King Lear, Ramaz Chkhikvadze has firmly established himself among the world's greatest Shakespearean actors, for whom Robert Sturua, director of the famous Rustaveli Theatre in Tbilisi, orients all his productions. Here, the theatre critic Sergei Parkhomenko talks to Chkhikvadze about his work, and his personal definition of acting and the human qualities it demands.