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Royal Shakespeare Company Apprentices Kate Bradley, Operations Apprentice, Automation; Jessie Humby, apprentice costume designer; Olivia Creed, apprentice stage and props designer. Photos: Sara Beaumont
Drama schools are adapting their approach to training to help plug a skills gap that is showing worrying signs of becoming endemic, but there is little they can do. Personalities from the training sector and industry speak with Théo Bosanquet about the root causes of the problem and the measures to be taken to remedy the shortage.