Beyond Shakespeare

Welcome to this chat with Ricky Dukes of Lazarus Theatre company - discussing their upcoming production of The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley at the Southwark Playhouse. Or is that the other way round?
We hope to return to Lazarus for more as the show goes into rehearsals. Tickets and show info can be found on their website.

Middleton/Rowley Exploring Sessions - September Sign Up - Come and Join Us!

Links and twitter handles - https://www.lazarustheatrecompany.co.uk/ @LazarusTheatre
Listen to a previous chat with Ricky Dukes and Gavin Harrington-Odedra about staging Marlowe (and other playwrights) -
https://audioboom.com/posts/7068343-discussing-staging-marlowe

The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Our patrons received this episode first a couple of weeks early.
Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at [email protected], follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org
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The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

The Jests of George Peele - Episode 9: How George read a Play-book to a Gentleman.
Performed by Sarah Blake

A full audiobook reading, performed by Sarah Blake of Sounds Curious Productions, released monthly - followed by an omnibus version. Our patrons have received early access to nearly all the episodes so far, and have exclusive access to our exploring sessions and discussion of the text - join us on the patreon to get more from the world of jest books.
Music by Tom Cowell.
Produced by Sounds Curious Productions for the Beyond Podcast.

Sarah Blake discusses the project with Robert Crighton on the podcast here - https://audioboom.com/posts/8194838-discussing-the-jests-of-george-peele-with-sarah-blake

The jests can be found variously online, though none of the ones we looked at were very tidy or void of errors - this is a fairly good option, but feel free to hunt. http://www.luminarium.org/renascence-editions/peele1.html

The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Our patrons received this episode first in December 2022 - seven months early. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at [email protected], follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org
You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ
The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

This production of Noah's Ark - or The Newcastle Noah Play - was produced for us by Sounds Curious Productions, the same home of our continuing Jests of George Peele.
There is a !Spoilers! walk through of the oddness of this particular play also available - https://audioboom.com/posts/8316679-spoilers-the-newcastle-noah-s-ark

In the Newcastle Noah play: Deus was played by Deeivya Meir, the Angel by Robert Crighton, Noah by William Sutton, Uxor by Sarah Blake, and the Demon by Andre Bullock.
The play was directed and produced by Sarah Blake and is a Sounds Curious Production for Beyond Shakespeare.

Our patrons received this episode in March 2023 - approx. 4 months early.
The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at [email protected], follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org
You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ
The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

We continue our series of explorations on the podcast with a deep dive into the play Arden of Faversham by the Unknown. We've left the first scenes of the play and are now in open waters, looking at scenes ten to thirteen, asking the question of how to adapt the text for an audio production.

The host was Robert Crighton, with Alan Scott, Eric Karoulla, Emma Kemp and Sarah Blake.

There's a First Look Exploring session of the play available on our YouTube channel, with more to come later in the year - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoKNs8EPvSfIj1dqslTdwZdi

Our patrons received this episode in April 2023, three months earlier than this release.
The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at [email protected], follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org
You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ
The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton

This week we continues our work on women's dramatic writing with the attributed translation of a speech from the chorus in Hercules Oetaeus, a play not by Seneca (but everyone thought it was) by Queen Elizabeth the First. It's a difficult speech in the original, and the translation is not easy to follow, but we had a go anyway. The speech is performed by Fiona Thraille, with an alternative contemporary translation by John Studley, a rough reading by Alan Scott taken from our exploring session available on YouTube.

This episode, hosted and produced as ever by Robert Crighton.

Our patrons received this episode in January 2023 - approx. 6 months early.
The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at [email protected], follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org
You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ
The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

The Jests of George Peele - Episode 8: How George gulled a Punk, otherwise called a Croshabell
Performed by Sarah Blake

A full audiobook reading, performed by Sarah Blake of Sounds Curious Productions, released monthly - followed by an omnibus version. Our patrons have received early access to nearly all the episodes so far, and have exclusive access to our exploring sessions and discussion of the text - join us on the patreon to get more from the world of jest books.
Music by Tom Cowell.
Produced by Sounds Curious Productions for the Beyond Podcast.

Sarah Blake discusses the project with Robert Crighton on the podcast here - https://audioboom.com/posts/8194838-discussing-the-jests-of-george-peele-with-sarah-blake

The jests can be found variously online, though none of the ones we looked at were very tidy or void of errors - this is a fairly good option, but feel free to hunt. http://www.luminarium.org/renascence-editions/peele1.html

The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Our patrons received this episode first in November 2022 - seven months early. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at [email protected], follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org
You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ
The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

It's time for our last fragment from the pen of George Puttenham, The Wooer.
This is the third of three fragments which comprise the complete dramatic works of George Puttenham, (following Gynaeocratica and Lusty London). It was originally written somewhere between 1570 and 1588, when George included some of the text as an example in his book The Art of Poesy.
With Simon Nader as The Wooer and Fiona Thraille as the Nurse and other speaker - your host, as ever, Robert Crighton.

Our patrons received this episode in January 2023 - approx. 6 months early.
The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at [email protected], follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org
You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ
The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

We continue our series of explorations on the podcast with a deep dive into the play Arden of Faversham by the Unknown. We've left the first scenes of the play and are now in open waters, looking at scenes three to nine, asking the question of how to adapt the text for an audio adaptation.

The host was Robert Crighton, with Gregory Musson, Eric Karoulla, Liza Graham, Tom Helsby and Sarah Blake.

There's a First Look Exploring session of the play available on our YouTube channel, with more to come later in the year - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoKNs8EPvSfIj1dqslTdwZdi

Our patrons received this episode in February 2023, over four months earlier than this release.
The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at [email protected], follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org
You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ
The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton

A surprise pop up minisode discussing episode as we chat with director of The Chester Mystery Cycle 2023 John Young, about the challenges of pulling together a massive community production of these plays.
John Young (Romeo and Juliet and The Merry Wives of Windsor - Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre, To Dream Again - Polka Theatre and Theatr Clwyd, staff director Kerry Jackson - National Theatre

Watch the Trailer on YouTube - https://youtu.be/zIMxG2J0jiM
Produced only once every five years, the Chester Mystery Plays tell Biblical tales of love, death, betrayal and redemption, as told by the medieval freemen and guilds of the city.  Presented in traverse with the stage running down the cathedral's central aisle, the audience will never be more than four rows from the action.
The 2023 production is told in one narrative from The Creation to the Last Judgment.
The script for the 2023 cycle is an adaptation, by John Young, of Edward Burns' Chester Mystery Plays, a new staging text (1987) and they will be presented in the nave of Chester Cathedral from June 28-July 15 at 7.30pm (except Sundays) with a matinee every Saturday at 1pm. 
Tickets are available from www.chestermysteryplays.com, telephone 01244 500959 or from the Chester Cathedral Box Office.

The host was Robert Crighton.

For more of Beyond's work on Chester, we have exploring sessions and some full cast audio adaptations as well in our handy playlist - https://audioboom.com/playlists/4623693-the-chester-mystery-cycle

The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at [email protected], follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org
You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ
The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

Spoilers for Noah's Ark, the Shipwrights' Ancient Play or Dirge, or The Newcastle Noah Play.

A new spoilers episode for a new full cast audio adaptation of Noah's Ark, an unattached solo mystery play from Newcastle - dating around 1450/1736, depending on how accurate you think the transcription is.

Produced for the podcast by Sarah Blake of Sounds Curious Productions.
With Deeivya Meir as God, William Sutton as Noah, Andre Bullock as the Demon, Robert Crighton as Angel, and Sarah Blake as Noah’s wife.

The host was Robert Crighton.

Our patrons received this episode in February 2022 - approx. 4 months early.
The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at [email protected], follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org
You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ
The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.