This show and tell invited us to see Shakespeare not as a distant literary icon frozen in textbooks, but as a working playwright in late 16th and early 17th century London - writing for actors, tight deadlines, and unpredictable live audiences, not academic analysis centuries later.

From how actors prepared, to how the architecture shaped the action, to why the language moves the way it does - this session lifted Shakespeare off the page and put him back where he belongs: on his feet, in the moment, alive. Blending performance, historical insight, and behind-the-scenes anecdotes, theatre-maker Anirudh 'Rudy' Nair brought Elizabethan London to life and reminded us that Shakespeare’s world was anything but dry. These were plays written to be played in bustling theatres filled with rowdy audiences, performed under daylight, with all-male casts, doubled roles, and minimal rehearsal time.