'Acting students and young professionals will flock to learn from him….passionate, entertaining… Indisputably wise and true… Wonderfully illuminating' Telegraph

'As fascinating to readers as it is to actors' The Independent

'Immensely engaging…. There will be many a director, performer and teacher who will only be too grateful to him in the future' Directors Guild of Great Britain

'This is the most fabulously hybrid book – part actor’s handbook, part memoir – what is most inspiring is Hall’s conviction that form can be as exciting as feeling/ Acting in this way is more than just listening to Shakespeare – it is responding to Shakespeare’s linear needs' The Observer