This week, Art Nation profiles Ewan Leslie, the stage actor said to be the next Geoffrey Rush. Like many actors Leslie is unassuming off stage, perhaps even a little shy. He certainly bears no resemblance to the blood-stained, unsettlingly charismatic monster he recently summoned for eight exhausting performances a week for the Melbourne Theatre Company. He was acting in the title role in Richard III, a production by MTC's artistic director Simon Phillips that gained almost unanimously ecstatic reviews.