On Wednesday 8th June 6.30-8pm on Zoom we will be joined by Martin Sales who will lead a session about making Shakespeare texts more accessible for your students.

About this session

This workshop will help teachers imbue their students with a sense of empowerment in relation to Shakespearean texts, without having to sit down for an hour figuring out what everything means and why The Bard had written it. Through this initial phase students will then seek deeper contexts independently.

Why this session is good to come to

Ever find yourself feeling overwhelmed when looking at a dense piece of Shakespeare verse? Not to worry, in this workshop we will look at how to draw the emotion out of the text and allow students to embody the role without the need to 'dumb-down' the language.

Session Fee: This session is £10 but discounted to London Drama and National Drama Members to £5. Please contact londondrama1@gmail.com to acquire the promo code.

About the session leader

Martin Sales trained as an actor from 2009-2012 at the Court Theatre Training Company in Hoxton. Performing a plethora of Shakespearean plays on the London fringe theatre scene such as: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, A Comedy of Errors, and The Merchant of Venice. Martin also played a knight in the RSC's 2016 production of King Lear at The Barbican.

Working with the Young Shakespeare Company from 2018-2019, Martin toured primary schools around the UK, Spain and China performing and running workshops around a variety of Shakespearean texts to children aged 4-18. Martin is now nearing the end of his PGCE (secondary) Drama training as Goldsmiths.