Tim Crouch is an internationally renowned & studied theatre maker. Crouch's first play, My Arm, opened at the Traverse Theatre in 2003 & continues to tour internationally. An Oak Tree won an OBIE for its Off-Broadway run in 2007. England won a Fringe First, a Total Theatre Award and a Herald Archangel in 2007. The Author was commissioned by the Royal Court Theatre, won a Total Theatre award and shared the John Whiting Award in 2010. Crouch has also written a body of work for young audiences: four pieces inspired by Shakespeare's minor characters, published by Oberon as I, Shakespeare.

A schoolkid-friendly contemporary response to that pivotal Act 3 Scene 3 lynching - nifty' Telegraph 'Michael Gove, our rote-obsessed Education Minister, should be frog-marched to see this brilliant amalgam of theatre and education in Tim Crouch's latest in a series of dramatisations of Shakespearean characters - Far more than a theatre-in-education exercise, audiences of any age would find this an engaging and thought-provoking deconstruction of a Shakespearean bit part enlightening.' Morning Star 'It's a very powerful piece indeed' The Stage 'Shakespeare and Crouch are woven seamlessly together to create both an introduction to Julius Caesar and a thought provoking piece about the ease with which an ordinary person, a passerby can get caught up in things beyond his control.' What's On Stage