Date: November 9th
Location: Actors' Guild Hub at Spotlight, 7 Leicester Place, London, WC2H 7RJ
Time: 18.00 - 21.00

This three hour workshop provides the opportunity to work with one of the UK most respected stage actors - a national treasure - in an informal and supportive setting. The workshop is aimed at professional actors who may lack confidence with speaking Shakespeare.

Actors are asked to learn a Shakespearean piece of their own choosing under two minutes in length. Pieces should be thoroughly learned. If two actors wanted to perform a duologue, that's fine. Participants are asked to let TAG know what piece you have chosen as soon as they know by emailing: tagteam@actorsguild.co.uk. Please bring a printout of your piece with you.

Everyone will have a chance to participate and observe.

Please note this workshop is slightly more expensive as it's limited to 12 actors.

TIMOTHY WEST’s appearances in the London Theatre have included Gentle Jack, Exiles, The Italian Girl, Abelard and Heloise, The Homecoming, Hedda Gabler, Beecham, Master Class, When we are Married, The Sneeze, It’s Ralph, Twelve Angry Men,The Birthday Party, The Old Country, The Collection and A Number.

At the National Theatre he has performed in Long Day’s Journey into Night, King Lear, and Luther; at the Royal Court in Laughter; in seasons with the RSC and at Chichester Festival; and with Prospect/Old Vic Company, for whom he played King Lear, Bolingbroke, Prospero, Shylock, Claudius and Enobarbus. At the Birmingham Rep, Galileo. For English Touring Theatre, on tour and in London he has played Falstaff in both parts of Henry IV, Solness in Ibsen’s The Master Builder, King Lear, Arthur Winslow in The Winslow Boy, and Romka in Ronald Harwood’s The Handyman.

Television includes Edward VII, Churchill and the Generals, Brass, The Monocled Mutineer, The Good Doctor Bodkin Adams, What the Butler Saw, The Contractor, Blore, M.P., Beecham, Framed, Eleven Men Against Eleven, Murder in Mind, Bedtime, Bleak House, A Room with a View, Going Postal, Exile, Titanic, Inside No. 9 and various Series including recently Coronation Street and Eastenders.

Recent films: Ever After, Joan of Arc, Villa des Roses, Iris, The Fourth Angel and Beyond Borders.

He has taken part in over 500 radio broadcasts, and recorded many Talking Books. His autobiography A Moment Towards the End of the Play, and SoYou Want to be an Actor (co-written with his wife Prunella Scales) are published by Nick Hern Books.

He was made CBE in 1984, and is currently President of the London Academy of Dramatic Art, and of the Society for Theatre Research.