A Shakespeare Tale

Alycia Smith-Howard

Alycia will be leading this holiday on 20 June 2012

Alycia is a Shakespeare scholar, columnist and lecturer. She earned her PhD and MA from The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon. She has served as a Shakespeare and literature consultant for a diverse range of stage productions, competitions, radio and television programmes (such as Antiques Roadshow). She lectures for The Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, and The National Trust. She is the author of: Studio Shakespeare: The Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place (2006), and The Critical Companion to Tennessee Williams (2005). In 2007, Studio Shakespeare was selected for the Victoria & Albert Museum Essential Shakespeare Reading List and nominated for the Theatre Book Prize by the London Society of Theatre Research. Alycia publishes regularly in print and online, and her monthly column, Notes from a Shakespeare Diva, is a popular, regular feature in Warwickshire Life magazine.

Alycia is also leading the following holidays:

Around the Globe – Abingworth, 15 October 2012

Shakespeare, Stratford & Warwick - Bourton-on-the-Water, 2 November 2012

Liz Oakley

Liz will be leading this holiday on 5 September 2012.

Liz has devoted her career to lecturing, teaching and writing on literature and theatre. Academic study has always attracted her, especially on theatrical subjects such as Shakespeare, while on a practical level she has directed many plays for teenage actors, frequently adapting stories and novels for use on stage. Autumn 2009 saw the publication of Inseparable Siblings, a biography of the playwright Laurence Housman and his suffragist sister, Clemence. Her current work in progress is a play on the Brontës and she takes much pleasure in leading Literary and Theatre breaks for HF Holidays.

Liz is also leading the following holidays:

The Brontës Literature and Countryside – Malhamdale, 12 September 2012

Theatre in the Cotswolds - Bourton-on-the-Water, 22 October 2012