 RSC performers will learn the background to plays at the centre |
Royal Shakespeare Company actors will receive performance lessons from academics at a �4.5m learning centre at the University of Warwick. University staff will teach RSC actors about the background of plays at the new centre, where theatre workshops will be held for students.
Paid for by the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the centre is due to be built later this year.
The RSC described the project as "a great marriage".
Studio space
Artistic director Michael Boyd said: "If our ambition at the RSC is for a place where artists can learn and make theatre at the same time, then this project is a valuable part of our journey to that goal."
The Capital - Creativity and Performance in Teaching and Learning - centre will include studio space and a playwright in residence will be appointed as part of the scheme.
A Professor of Creativity and Performance, who will look at the use of theatre performance in teaching, will also be appointed. "We already enjoy good working relationships with the University of Birmingham at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon, and with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust," said Mr Boyd.
"Now with this project with the University of Warwick we in the West Midlands are accruing the critical mass to be a world centre for Shakespeare and performance studies."
Professor Jonathan Bate, the university's Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, said students would learn from the process of making theatre "to think oneself into the other person's point of view, to work as part of a team".
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We in the West Midlands are accruing the critical mass to be a world centre for Shakespeare and performance studies 
