Movies can help, but they are usually heavily edited, and may contain sequences necessary for cinamatic effect, but not necessarily true to the play itelf. Also, because it is possible to do things on screen that are not possible on stage, the interpretaions are often far different to those that would take place on a stage.

Students rarely have access to actors, technicians or directors, and so may not have any idea of the processes that take place or the techniques utilised to get a play through the production phases. So if, in an examination, they are confronted by a question such as "In a production of "Macbeth" how would you ... ?" they have no experience to call upon and no real knowledge of what is possible.

Therefore, not just actually seeing the plays brought to life, but also gaining access to the director, producer, actors, and technicians to ask them questions, and being able to acess all of the research done prior to production, and then to read notes and see plans made during the production process by the cast and crew, should provide a wonderful resource that will broaden horizons, answer questions, and correct misconceptions about the production process and the play itself.

This will entail doing things that have never been done before by an individual production company at this level, but that is no bad thing. It simply means people who have studied in this environment and now work in it, understand instinctively what will be needed and will seek to provide it. We will be calling on everything available to us within this production house to provide the strongest possible arts and literature resource we can on as many different levels as we can, and we will do this on an on going basis and make all that we can available to everyone.

Just how we are going to do that is what is most exciting of all.