Undercover Actors!

This is not some blog about how we do team building characters on fun spy missions. Nope. More interesting than that – and more real. Every now and again we’ve been asked to do a job that is a little out of the ordinary. As opposed to a big showy...

“Doing” Shakespeare.

Rosalind Parker plays an outraged Katharina in an excerpt from The taming of the Shrew at Somerset House last year for a private audience. Photo credit Christine Heymann We LOVE doing Shakespeare.  When we say “doing” Shakespeare it makes it sound flippant...

Step into the Arena

Arena: (noun). A field of conflict, activity or endeavour. You might think it harsh, or even inappropriate, but Arena is the right metaphor for training. Instead of “Death by Powerpoint” – (not our phrase I hasten to add), training should be a...

Actors in Immersive Training.

More and more people are seeing the benefits of using actors to enhance and improve their training objectives these days. It makes sense: it’s an arena where people can try out new techniques and learn from mistakes in a way that they will remember and gives...