It was my pleasure to return to OSD this year to work with the one year Post Graduate students in one of their graduation shows. I returned to the Serpent's Teeth believing it to be a highly relevant work in today's troubled times and a text that offers a year group of 18 students endless possibilities. I rehearsed two versions with slightly different casting so all students had two to three crucial roles to explore. My main area of interest is to help students develop their practice and understanding of embodied learning - learning through the body. I start with laying down the principals of finding complicité with other actors in the ensemble. To find complicité , actors need the right circumstances and environment to come to "open" : this can only be achieved if actors can come to the floor as themselves. Once all this is place, actors can find the "pleasure to play" and work fluently and fluidly through every moment of rehearsal and sustain this approach through performance.
As always it was my pleasure to collaborate with Oxford School of Drama on this wonderful play.