Meet the Stratford actor starring in The Box of Delights at the Royal Shakespeare Company

Nia Gwynne is relishing her return to the RSC stage to play badass jewel thief Sylvia Daisy Pouncer in festive show The Box of Delights. The Stratford-based actor tells Gill Sutherland about the magical world that’s being created.

Were you familiar with The Box of Delights?

Not the book [written by John Masefield in 1935], but I’m 51 and old enough to remember the TV series [1984], but I found the opening and the theme so scary I couldn’t watch it.