An excellent weekend at Dundee Rep taking part in a number of workshops in the RSC Open Stages project.

Remember the 2012 Olympics?  It was felt necessary to add a bit of culture to all the running about (and I don't mean the opening ceremony).  As part of the cultural hoohaa the RSC organised The World Shakespeare Festival and as part of that set up a collaboration with amateur theatre groups called Open Stages.

That finished in the summer of 2012 but a new edition, a true Olympic legacy, stretching from 2013 to 2016 is under way and Grads are taking part in it.  We are presenting a Gulf War informed production of Titus Andronicus in April 2015.

There's a lot of water to flow under the bridge before then but a number of us interested in that production were in Dundee to profit from RSC expert knowledge in movement, stage combat, text and acting.  Apart from learning and the great pleasure of working at Dundee Rep, especially in their beautiful main house, we were well fed and watered and had great fun.

To find out what we did, get to EGTG on Facebook and read Dan Sutton's excellent descriptions of the workshops.