The UK’s first coronavirus lockdown timed itself pretty perfectly with the release of the much anticipated Animal Crossing: New Horizons game by Nintendo. The nation was locked inside, but in your lap was the chance to build your own island Read more…
By Susanna Dye. This post originally appeared on the blog for Siobhan Davies Studios, where Susanna and collaborator Manon Ouimet have held a web residency: you can explore more of their work on the website. Intro This piece of writing Read more…
As we get ready for the release of a brand new recording of SJ Brady’s Here She Comes, an adaptation of Euripides’ Bacchae, David Bullen takes a look at the character of Agave from the ancient to the modern stage. Agave appears Read more…
If you enjoyed #MedeaLive, you’ll be just as excited as we are about our next lockdown theatre project: on 12th July we’re releasing a brand new audio recording by SJ Brady of her brilliant epic poem HERE SHE COMES, complete with original music by Vivienne Youel! Read more…
Announcement time! We’re joining in with #LockdownTheatre to bring you not one but TWO of our shows. First up is Wendy Haines’ “bold and beautiful” adaptation of MEDEA, revamped for digital performance but with all of the original cast! Join us on Read more…
The UK is now in its seventh week of lockdown in an effort to fight the spread of the novel coronavirus and the disease it causes, COVID-19. While observing proper social distancing measures is doubtless the correct response and saving Read more…
Happy New Year, everyone! As we proceed into 2020, it seems as good a time as any to take a look back at what we achieved as a company in the 2010s. Although we weren’t established at the very beginning Read more…
Too many articles about Caryl Churchill start with a tone of surprise that she is still a pioneering writer in her later years. Innovation is not necessarily the territory of the young, and Churchill is living proof that the myth Read more…
On Thursday 24th October, members of By Jove performed scenes from the developing Orestes Project at the launch of a new research centre at the Open University, Gender and Otherness in the Humanities (GOTH). By Jove’s Christine Plastow is a Read more…
If you follow us on Twitter, you probably already know that a couple of weeks ago we held our longest session yet of research and development for our ongoing project looking at queerness in the myth of Orestes! We contended with Read more…