Beyond Shakespeare

Chess Pieces: Exploring A Game at Chess by Thomas Middleton
A planning session for our future productions of A Game at Chess by Middleton. We open Act Two, Scene One - CW: It features an attempted sexual assault. There are fewer structural adaptive questions to solve in this scene, but it contains material that might help with issues we had adapting Act 1.

With Eric Karoulla, Liza Graham, Lynsey Beauchamp and Emma Kemp.

The host was Robert Crighton.

Our initial First Look Exploring Session can be found on our YouTube channel - feel free to browse, like, subscribe - and all that malarky. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoJWOdHzBzkdJXtRR7UkydSW

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

Another in our occasional series of cross overs with our YouTube channel, this is a Second Look read through and discussion of The Four Elements by John Rastell, a fragmentary play from around 1519. This is our first take, recorded in 2021, returning to the play after a year or so, as prep for a more detailed run - the video of which can be watched here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlkGUCoxIwQ

With Gregory Musson as Humanity; Eric Karoulla as Ignorance; Liza Graham as Sensual Appetite; Rachael Nicole as Studious Desire; Lynsey Beauchamp as The Messenger, Experience; Alex Scott Fairley as Nature, Taverner.

The host was Robert Crighton.

All the videos on The Four Elements can be viewed via this handy playlist - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAKX-oxejjs&list=PLflmEwgdfKoIsAsJqQvUYr5ItLoFVA2Lo

To learn more about John Rastell, go to our Discussion episode on the man and his writing - https://audioboom.com/posts/7013153-discussing-john-rastell

There's an interesting exposition of the globe/maps in the play with text and images to be found here -http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/amerbegin/contact/text2/fourelements.pdf

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 series of podcasts looking at plays we'd like to see, where we and guests pitch a Fantasy Production. With much merriment and chat, we explore different media, different approaches and a different play each session. Each play has been covered on our YouTube channel, or on the podcast, so you can dig deeper into the text if you'd like. Regular segments include - Cocktail Minute (a play themed cocktail), from the Chatroom (reactions to the play in chat from our readings), and Fake Movie Trailers.

Contributors include: Liza Graham, Alexandra Kataigida, Sarah Blake, and host Robert Crighton

Episode One: George-a-Greene - a super fun part of the Robin Hood extended universe.

Contribute to our work specifically on George-a-Greene via paypay.
There will soon be some George-a-Greene merchandise - coming soon!

Join our Patreon to listen to uncut versions of the podcast - full audio (£5 tier) or watch the uncut video version (£10).

This version features additional sfx and music from zapsplat.com

Watch our First Look Exploring Session - a playlist of all our stop start read throughs of the play.
Watch our Second Look Exploring Session - a fast run through that's almost a proper production... though not quite.
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 simultaneous release with our YouTube channel, this is a Second Look read through and discussion of The Tragedy of Iphigeneia by Jane, Lady Lumley, written about 1553.

With Eric Karoulla as Achilles; Alan Scott as Menelaus; Elizabeth Amisu as Cytemnestra; Rachael Nicole as Iphigeneia; Sarah Blake as Agamemnon; Helen Good as Nuncius; Lynn Freitas as Senex.
The host was Robert Crighton who also read the Chorus.

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

Fragments: The Prodigal Son by the Unknown - from the press of William Rastell, possibly around 1530.
It's a return to full cast audio production this year, with this short fragment of The Prodigal Son plus introductory exposition. 
CW: The text plays with misogynistic ideas of the shrewish wife, and there is an unfortunate use of a word which has an alternative modern meaning to firewood.

In the fragment known as The Prodigal Son, or Pater, Filius et Uxor - Uxor was played by Leigh McDonald; Pater by Geir Madland; Filius by Simon Nader, and the servant, Robert Crighton.The Prodigal Son was hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

Additional links and material.
The Prodigal Son - First Look Exploring Session on the podcast -  https://audioboom.com/posts/7322186-exploring-the-prodigal-son-fragment
The Disobedient Child - First Look on the podcast - https://audioboom.com/posts/7548404-exploring-the-disobedient-child
Second Look fast paced run on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdP4mVy3OZw

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.

Chess Pieces: Exploring A Game at Chess by Thomas Middleton, part 2.
Welcome to a series of podcasts looking at A Game at Chess by Thomas Middleton, specifically asking questions as to how to produce it a. as a full cast audio adaptation and b. as a live stage show in miniature and in full.
This session covers the continuing issues of exposition in the opening of the play (completing our survey of Act 1), questions of names and how to get across who anyone is. These are opening gambits towards our full cast audio adaptation for the podcast, with an endgame of a full scale production further down the road.

In the room were Eric Karoulla, Alan Scott, Lynn Freitas, Helen Good, Emma Kemp. and host Robert Crighton.

Our initial First Look Exploring Session can be found on our YouTube channel - feel free to browse, like, subscribe - and all that malarky. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoJWOdHzBzkdJXtRR7UkydSW

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

Happy New Year! This is a simultaneous release on YouTube and the podcast - there are some bits that are more videoy (sorry podcast people, it wasn't supposed to be that way, Robert forgot (Robert forgets what year it is, so it's downhill all the way)).
Anyway... Happy New Year! New stuff is coming, old stuff is coming, more stuff is coming.

YouTube version can be found here - https://youtu.be/dBXCwTbYqAs

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 (apart from early N-Town stuff) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ
The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

A First Look read through and discussion of Narcissus: A Twelfth Night Merriment, performed on Thursday 6th January 1602 (or new style 1603). This is a merriment performed at St John's College, Oxford, and is both incredibly self indulgent, and rather silly. Merry Christmas!
This is a simultaneous release with our YouTube channel, where most First Look explorations live.

With Eric Karoulla as Primus, Cephisus, Clinias; Alan Scott as Secundus, Tyresias, Cloris; Sarah Blake as Tertius, Lyriope, Florida, Echo; Emma Kemp as Prologue, Narcissus, One With Bucket; Briony Sparrow as Porter, Dorastus.
The host was Robert Crighton.

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 (apart from early N-Town stuff) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ
The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

Triumph 1621: Reconstructing: The Sun in Aries by Thomas Middleton. This is mostly an uncut recording of the 12pm show, our first of the day, from various outdoor recording positions that have been edited together into one track. It was not an ideal day to record on - it had rained for most of the morning and, though this performance was dry, our equipment was still largely covered in plastic. A few sections have been taken from other parts of the day for technical reasons.There will be a SPOILERS episode of the podcast coming out next year, where we explicate a bit about what's going on in the original show, as the text survives to us. Do go to our website where there are photos and links to videos about the show - or there will be very shortly. 
The Sun in Aries by Thomas Middleton, performed from 12pm on Friday 29th October 2021, 400 years after the original performance in 1621
COMPANY:Crier - Aliki Chapple
Thomas Middleton - Alexandra KataigidaJason - Charlie BeerFame - Holly Bartlett GilesThe Re-edified Standard - Daniel YabutAries - Quinn ScottLord Mayor Edward Barkham - Gregory Musson

Music by Passamezzo, led by Tamsin Lewis withAdrian Woodward - trumpetRichard de Winter - singerRobin Jeffrey - lute

Icon Bearers (silent, but you might hear the reactions to them... especially Tom)
Helen Good - GuildhallStephen Longstaffe - WestminsterElizabeth Amisu - St Paul'sAngela McShane - The StandardTom Helsby - Six Knights Personified, St Lawrence Lane
STAGE TEAM:Stage Manager - Valentina VinciAssistant Stage Manager - Liza Graham
Costumes - Callum Coates and the Lion's PartAdditional Sound Recording - Emma Kennedy
Photography - Simon Nader
Whifflers: Heydn McCabe, Rob Myson, Emma Kemp, Briony Sparrow, Pollie Hall

City Chronologer - Tracey HillResearch Assistant - Kerstin Grunwald-Hope
Youth Director - Sam Plumb
Chaperone - Beverley Purkiss-Dean 
Online Costume Design - Sarah BlakePageant Master - Robert Crighton

Thanks to The Revd George Bush, Danniella Downs, Matthew Beaumont and the City of London team, Ellena Schuster-Farrell, Claire Dumontier-Marriage, Christine Moia, ALL the people who signed up and expressed interest in the show, Eleanor Rycroft, Annaliese Connolly, Lois Potter, Perry Mills, Eric Karoulla, Rachael Nicole, Angela McShane, and Joe Fawcett for additional recording equipment.
Triumph 1621 could not have happened without the generous support of the Cheapside Business Alliance, SRS Public Engagement Scheme, Bath Spa University, and St Mary le Bow Church.

LINKS: Our first reading of the text can be found on YouTube - https://youtu.be/nPHTWH4GBgk
Other material is/or will soon appear on our website - https://beyondshakespeare.org/triumph-1621-sun-in-aries-recon/

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 reading of an edited version of Gentleness and Nobility by John Heywood and John Rastell, performed before a live audience in 2018.

A Knight overhears a Merchant boasting of his nobleness, sparking an argument between the two as to what is a gentleman. They are further interrupted by a Ploughman, whose debating style is a little more… violent.

With Rob Myson as the Merchant, Heydn McCabe as the Knight and Geir Madland as the Ploughman. 

The host is Robert Crighton

We've a lot of stuff on John Heywood - including a full cast uncut audio adaptation of the play - https://audioboom.com/posts/6948279-gentleness-and-nobility-by-john-heywood
In fact, we've done ALL the plays of John Heywood, plus a host of background stuff - https://audioboom.com/playlists/4620013-the-plays-of-john-heywood

John Heywood exploring sessions can be found on our YouTube channel - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoKffZtkgZ7mUYF_d1mD72fr

For more information about this podcast go to our website - http://beyondshakespeare.org/