The Plays

To make sense of Shakespeare, actors use their senses. They use physical senses like sight, sound and touch, but also their senses of rhythm and style and imagination to discover the meaning of a text. In the following study guides, we'll lead you through some of the exercises which our actors have used so that you too can make sense of the scene by using your senses.

Actors use a variety of techniques to discover the layers Shakespeare uses to construct a speech or a scene, and then build a performance which will make sense to their audience.