It has been my great pleasure to work with actors on Shakespeare for more than 30 years,  whether it be the capacity of a  director,  associate director at a regional theatre,  artistic director or most recently, as head the MFA Acting Program and a Senior Acting Tutor at the Bristol  Old Vic Threatre  School.     Over that time iis has become apparent our comtemporary playing of Shakespeare offers common areas of challange where even the most giffed actors find they get stalled in advancing thier worke.

In particular there is something one often hears  descibed quite specifically by early career actors.  They talk about being fustrated with the feeling  that there is a tangible gap that exists between the  solid place the have landed through training and early career experiencees and where they want their work to progress to in terms of the performances  that most inspire them  when seeing Shakespeare live in  production.

Many are innately aware they are capable of of tons more (and they are right), but don't feel they necessarily have the required tools to navigate into that new territory.