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- 79: Exploring Chester Play 15Exploring the Chester Mystery Cycle - Play 15
From our Exploring workshop, where we read through the text of this play for future use towards an audio/stage show. This is the Bakers play of the Last Supper and Betrayal. Some ear splitting action.
The Beyond Shakespeare Irregulars this episode were Richard Fawcett as Jesus, with Liz Cole, Mark Scanlon, Mark Saberton and Alan Scott as everyone else – with host, Robert Crighton.
There are more versions of the Chester plays than you can shake a stick at - (actually there are eight) - so any text you use to follow will probably be a bit different to ours (for the sticklers, our base text was H, except for play five, where it was just easier to go for a group text (D-or Hm, A, R, B) composite - though some readings may have been borrowed from all). However, you don't necessarily need to worry about such things, so here's a nice friendly modern spelling version we found online. http://groups.chass.utoronto.ca/plspls/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/index.html
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 follow us on Twitter @BeyondShakes or even go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org31 min - 78: The Family of Love (Prologue)The Family of Love by Somebody (Prologue) - What's Past Is Prologue
A performance of the prologue to The Family of Love by various possible contenders (we're not really sure if we should take sides on fiddly authorship questions).
If you'd like to make us to do a full audio production of this play, join us on patreon and choose this play at the next vote. www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare or you can follow us on Twitter @BeyondShakes - or go to our website beyondshakespeare.org
Prologue performed by Sarah Golding, produced by Robert Crighton.
Additional sound effects from the wonderful people at http://www.freesfx.co.uk2 min - 77: Jack Juggler - Full Cast AdaptationA Full Cast Audio Adaptation of Jack JugglerJack Juggler decides to get his revenge on one Jenkin Careaway, a servant to Master Bongrace. He does this by stealing the identity of Careaway, and causing his mistress and master to turn against him. A knockabout Tudor comedy, probably originally performed by children or students, first printed in 1575. This is the first play from our season of work chosen by our patrons. To get involved in deciding our future seasons, become a patron today!Jack Juggler is performed by Heydn McCabe, Jenkin Careaway by Simon Nader. With Leigh McDonald as Dame Coye, Nemonee Stone as Alice Trip and Go, and Geir Madland as Master Bongrace. The Prologue and Epilogue is performed by Rob Myson. Additional voices by Robert Crighton. Pollie Hall, and the Beyond Shakespeare Irregulars. Jack Juggler is produced by Robert Crighton, with most of the location sound recorded in Bury St Edmunds - except for the opening school sounds, from the wonderful people at http://www.freesfx.co.uk
You can follow the text online - though some texts are better than others. Good editions of the play can also be found - not always in print, but still in circulation - and are worth the hunt.
An online version - with some variations in text - can be found at project Gutenberg here. Other online versions can be searched for.
Editions: Four Tudor Comedies - Penguin (1984), Three Tudor Classical Interludes - Tudor Interludes Series, D.S. Brewer (1982)
Support the podcast by going to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare and pledge something – or by leaving a review on itunes or whichever podcasting service you use. Or follow us on Twitter @BeyondShakes or check out our website at www.beyondshakespeare.org58 min - 76: Exploring Chester Play 14Exploring the Chester Mystery Cycle - Play 14
From our Exploring workshop, where we read through the text of this play for future use towards an audio/stage show. We're playing around with how to make these pieces come alive for people today, starting with these recordings of reads through and workshops. Chester play 14 is the Corvisors (Shoemaker's) play of the entry into Jerusalem, Mary Magdalene, overturning the tables of the money changers and the meeting of Judas with Annas and Caiaphas. It's a busy play, and that's not the half of it.
The Beyond Shakespeare Irregulars this episode are The Irregulars were Richard Fawcett as Jesus, with Liz Cole, Mark Scanlon, Mark Saberton and Alan Scott as everyone else – with host, Robert Crighton.
There are more versions of the Chester plays than you can shake a stick at - (actually there are eight) - so any text you use to follow will probably be a bit different to ours (for the sticklers, our base text was H, except for play five, where it was just easier to go for a group text (D-or Hm, A, R, B) composite - though some readings may have been borrowed from all). However, you don't necessarily need to worry about such things, so here's a nice friendly modern spelling version we found online. http://groups.chass.utoronto.ca/plspls/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/index.html
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 follow us on Twitter @BeyondShakes or even go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org34 min - 75: Spoilers: Jack Juggler 6 (Epilogue)Spoilers: Jack Juggler 6 (The Epilogue)
Welcome to this spoilery introduction to the play Jack Juggler by Someone. We present a run down of the action, with commentary and clips, followed by a plain text recording of material in the edit for the final full cast audio adaptation (coming soon!)
Today it's the epilogue, which attempts a desperate moral rearguard action to give the play a purpose not hinted at in the prologue. The epilogue is performed by Rob Myson. The host is Robert Crighton.BE WARNED - If you just want to listen to the play as a play, don't listen to the spoilers episodes. Come back later, or don't listen. However, if you find early drama hard to follow, then you will get a good grounding in the action here - especially as we may make changes or cuts for our final version! The plain text version is rough in hew, it will change and we produce it in part to hunt out errors.
You can follow the text online - though some texts are better than others. Good editions of the play can also be found - not always in print, but still in circulation - and are worth the hunt.
An online version - with some variations in text - can be found at project Gutenberg here. Other online versions can be searched for.
Editions: Four Tudor Comedies - Penguin (1984), Three Tudor Classical Interludes - Tudor Interludes Series, D.S. Brewer (1982)
Support the podcast by going to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare and pledge something – or by leaving a review on itunes or whichever podcasting service you use. Or follow us on Twitter @BeyondShakes or check out our website at www.beyondshakespeare.org14 min - 74: The Nice Valour (Prologue)The Nice Valour by Various People (Prologue) - What's Past Is Prologue
A performance of the prologue to The Nice Valour or, The Passionate Madman by various possible contenders (we're not really sure if we should take sides on fiddly authorship questions).
If you'd like to make us to do a full audio production of this play, join us on patreon and choose this play at the next vote. www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare or you can follow us on Twitter @BeyondShakes - or go to our website beyondshakespeare.org
Prologue performed by Sarah Golding, produced by Robert Crighton.
Additional sound effects from the wonderful people at http://www.freesfx.co.uk1 min - 73: Exploring Chester Play 13Exploring the Chester Mystery Cycle - Play 13
From our Exploring workshop, where we read through the text of this play for future use towards an audio/stage show. We're playing around with how to make these pieces come alive for people today, starting with these recordings of reads through and workshops. Chester play 13 is the Glovers play of the healing of the blind man and the raising of Lazarus.
The Beyond Shakespeare Irregulars this episode are The Irregulars were Richard Fawcett as Jesus, with Liz Cole, Mark Scanlon and Alan Scott as everyone else – with host, Robert Crighton.
There are more versions of the Chester plays than you can shake a stick at - (actually there are eight) - so any text you use to follow will probably be a bit different to ours (for the sticklers, our base text was H, except for play five, where it was just easier to go for a group text (D-or Hm, A, R, B) composite - though some readings may have been borrowed from all). However, you don't necessarily need to worry about such things, so here's a nice friendly modern spelling version we found online. http://groups.chass.utoronto.ca/plspls/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/index.html
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 follow us on Twitter @BeyondShakes or even go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org41 min - 72: Spoilers: Jack Juggler 5 (Close of Play)Spoilers: Jack Juggler 5 (Close of Play, or Careaway's Excuses!)
Welcome to this spoilery introduction to the play Jack Juggler by Someone. We present a run down of the action, with commentary and clips, followed by a plain text recording of material in the edit for the final full cast audio adaptation (coming soon!)
Today it's the close of play where Jenkin Careaway is confronted by his mistress and master, and tries to explain what happened to him. Jack Juggler is performed by Heydn McCabe, Jenkin Careaway by Simon Nader. With Leigh McDonald as Dame Coye, Nemonee Stone as Alice Trip and Go, and Geir Madland as Master Bongrace. The host is Robert Crighton.BE WARNED - If you just want to listen to the play as a play, don't listen to the spoilers episodes. Come back later, or don't listen. However, if you find early drama hard to follow, then you will get a good grounding in the action here - especially as we may make changes or cuts for our final version! The plain text version is rough in hew, it will change and we produce it in part to hunt out errors.
You can follow the text online - though some texts are better than others. Good editions of the play can also be found - not always in print, but still in circulation - and are worth the hunt.
An online version - with some variations in text - can be found at project Gutenberg here. Other online versions can be searched for.
Editions: Four Tudor Comedies - Penguin (1984), Three Tudor Classical Interludes - Tudor Interludes Series, D.S. Brewer (1982)
Support the podcast by going to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare and pledge something – or by leaving a review on itunes or whichever podcasting service you use. Or follow us on Twitter @BeyondShakes or check out our website at www.beyondshakespeare.org37 min - 71: Two Angry Women of Abington (Prologue)Two Angry Women of Abington by Henry Porter (Prologue) - What's Past Is Prologue
A performance of the prologue to Two Angry Women of Abington by Henry Porter - the only play by Henry Porter that has survived the winds of history. He seems to have been fairly successful, until he was a tad bit murdered by another playwright. Everyone's a critic.
If you'd like to make us to do a full audio production of this play, join us on patreon and choose this play at the next vote. www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare or you can follow us on Twitter @BeyondShakes - or go to our website beyondshakespeare.org
Prologue performed by Sarah Golding, produced by Robert Crighton.
Additional sound effects from the wonderful people at http://www.freesfx.co.uk3 min - 70: Spoilers: Jack Juggler 4 (The Big Scene)
Spoilers: Jack Juggler 4 (The Big Scene, or I'm Jenkin Careaway!)
Welcome to this spoilery introduction to the play Jack Juggler by Someone. We present a run down of the action, with commentary and clips, followed by a plain text recording of material in the edit for the final full cast audio adaptation (coming soon!)
Today it's the big action scene where Jack Juggler confronts Jenkin Careaway and tries to convince him (Careaway) that he (Jack) is him (Careaway). Still with us? Jack Juggler is performed by Heydn McCabe and Jenkin Careaway by Simon Nader. The host is Robert Crighton.
BE WARNED - If you just want to listen to the play as a play, don't listen to the spoilers episodes. Come back later, or don't listen. However, if you find early drama hard to follow, then you will get a good grounding in the action here - especially as we may make changes or cuts for our final version! The plain text version is rough in hew, it will change and we produce it in part to hunt out errors.
You can follow the text online - though some texts are better than others. Good editions of the play can also be found - not always in print, but still in circulation - and are worth the hunt.
An online version - with some variations in text - can be found at project Gutenberg here. Other online versions can be searched for.
Editions: Four Tudor Comedies - Penguin (1984), Three Tudor Classical Interludes - Tudor Interludes Series, D.S. Brewer (1982)
Support the podcast by going to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare and pledge something – or by leaving a review on itunes or whichever podcasting service you use. Or follow us on Twitter @BeyondShakes or check out our website at www.beyondshakespeare.org
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About Beyond Shakespeare
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From the earliest drama in English, to the closing of the theatres in 1642, there was a hell of a lot of drama produced - and a lot of it wasn't by Shakespeare. Apart from a few noble exceptions…
these plays are often passed over, ignored or simply unknown. This podcast presents full audio productions of the plays, fragmentary and extant, that shaped the theatrical world that shaped our dramatic history.