It's all getting very real now as I visited the site, Harehope Quaryy, to have a meeting with Jill Essam. Dates for the production are now finalised (13th/14th Sept and 20/21st). Now I just have to try to edit the play!! Oh and pray for...

Jeremy, Alan and I spent the morning trying to get votes from the Weardale folk in order to be part of WAAP funding - unfortunately The Tempest was 2 votes short!...

Final day and started with a brilliant movement workshop - learnt some much which I know I can pass on. Great confident feeling now. After another wonderful lunch went to the final workshop - Voice and Text in "The Swan Theatre"!! So I have performed Shakespeare...

So first proper day today. Arrived at the theatre and met up with all the other participants, some of whom I had spoken to last night. Had an introduction to the weekend and then straight into first workshop of "Working with Actors". This was led...

I arrived in Stratford tonight and went to meet up with fellow directors at "The Dirty Duck". Was slightly overwhelmed by the fact that most of them appeared to have directed a Shakespeare before. Returned to my sister's, where I am staying, glass of wine...

Today I was chosen to be the director of The Tempest in our Open Stages project; which means that I will be going to Stratford Upon Avon to work with the RSC....

So it's the new year and I have just attended another mentoring session in Manchester but this time I took 3 of the Dramadale group as actors. Today we worked on a specific piece of text ( from Midsummer Night's Dream). We looked at starting...