Shakespeare's Directing Hand: Exploring the Elizabethan and Jacobean Toolkit for Actors
Wed 20 May
|West London Trade Union Club
Join us for three days with Dickon Tyrrell, who will be delving into Shakespeare's clues for actors as they appear in his comedies and tragedies.
Time & Location
20 May 2026, 10:00 – 22 May 2026, 17:00
West London Trade Union Club, 33-35 High St, London W3 6ND, UK
About the event
We are delighted to announce our second annual spring school in London. We will be joined by Dickon Tyrrell, a veteran of the stages of the Globe Theatre, where he is also a faculty member. He is an associate artist at LAMDA, and is a regular course director at schools including LAMDA, East 15, and the Globe’s education programme. His recent stage credits at the Globe include Macbeth, Bartholomew Fair, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Twelfth Night.
Rather than focusing on a single play, we have chosen to theme the spring school more broadly around Shakespearean comedy and tragedy, and the tools which both genres offer. We will be building the workshops mostly around Twelfth Night and Macbeth, though participants will be welcome to apply their knowledge of other plays as well.
On the final day, there will be an opportunity to perform a monologue or scene for the…
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Single Day
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