Francesca McBride returns to Chichester Festival Youth Theatre armed with a degree in politics and international relations from the University of Bath.
And, as she says, that's certainly going to be useful for Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night's Dream in West Dean Gardens from Friday, August 4-Saturday, August 19, in which she will be playing Oberon: “I really, really enjoyed the course but I chose to study politics not because I was wanting to go into politics but because I wanted to study power and I do think that feeds into my enthusiasm for acting. When you look at a text, I think the first thing that comes to mind is to look at the power imbalances among the characters.”