RSC Open Stages

Bridgnorth Players' bid to be part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's "RSC Open Stages" project for amateur theatre has been accepted and the group have a training slot at Stratford in early 2012 to learn more about the nationwide project and theatre skills.

Liz Fisher, who submitted the application to the RSC, said, “Our biggest challenge is that most of us have never done Shakespeare since school, so find it daunting to have confidence in putting it across to audiences who will also be unfamiliar with it. That is where we really would love to learn from the RSC anything and everything that amateurs can learn from professionals. If we can pull this together and take it to our local communities, we will have done our bit towards bringing Shakespeare into the 21st century.”