Words of wisdom from Acting Shakespeare:
1) If you're alone on stage in Shakespeare, you're talking to audience, stars, person, to self ONLY with single thought
2) It's interesting when actor knows that audience is there
3) Try to pick a monologue to perform that widens your range--can you play your opposite?
4) In Shakespeare, the stakes are life and death
5) In acting, the target is always moving/changing and you're trying to change the target--relationships are a constant negotiation
6) Time is the most frequently used word in Shakespeare
7) Time is the enemy
8) Relationships are built on humor--it's among women's top five traits to find in a man, always (I totally agree with this)
9) In Shakespeare, young people are adolescents (16/17 for us)--they are experiencing things for the first time and are going through an emotional, gutsy period (how true)
10) In Shakespeare, older people are in their 30s!  They aren't ancient!
11) Shakespeare characters are subjective one moment and objective the next--we have trouble doing this in real life