"About time too!"

Mike Boyd the Artistic Director of the RSC:-

Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director Michael Boyd has called on theatre professionals to take amateur performance more seriously, and revealed that the RSC is looking to increase the amount of work it undertakes with non-professionals.

Speaking as he unveiled the company’s plans for the next three years and beyond, Boyd said that by 2012, when the RSC will stage a World Shakespeare Festival as part of the Cultural Olympiad, he wanted to “take away the crucifix and garlic that we have held up in the profession against the non-professional theatre movement in this country.”

http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/21852/rsc-seeks-greater-involvement-with-amateur