Kicking off our new series on By Jove’s recently announced ‘season of violent women’, our co-artistic director David Bullen tells us why this year is the year of Shakespeare’s infamous She-Wolf of France… 2016 marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s Read more…
By Jove’s resident poet Alexander Woodward shares something he wrote about the attack on Pulse in Orlando. The poem starts below the flag if you want to skip the intro. Hello. My name is Alexander Woodward. I am By Jove’s Read more…
Susanna Dye, By Jove artistic associate for movement, dropped in on a physicality workshop for ‘Pride & Prejudice: The Panto’ and has discovered some most fascinating facts about how to flaunt it, Regency style… As an artistic associate of Read more…
Co-Artistic Director David Bullen returns with the second part of his blog on working with Ariane Mnouchkine, and it wasn’t all a smooth ride… So, less than 24 hours after Part 1 of this blog was published, I gave Read more…
After a summer pause, the By Jove blog resumes this week with the first of two posts by co-artistic director David Bullen, who has been going back to the roots of the company… This week I stood on a Read more…
In this piece Woody discusses why people are so drawn to shows filled with negative emotion Hello. So, I’ve been talking to various of the creative types with whom I kick about, and a question has come up a few Read more…
(Alternative title to this post: The Right Way & The Wrong Way for Stopping Something with which You Disagree) Hello, Woody here. It’s an exciting time for the company. Our version of Euripides’ Bacchae will be appearing at the Cockpit Theatre Read more…
This week Woody explores a half-drunk realisation he had. Hello. So, the other day I had a few beers and sat thinking about our recent production Before They Told You What You Are (for which we may need a shorter title – I shall Read more…
Woody shares some thoughts on our most recent project Hello. So, on Tuesday we went into the middle of that London they have now to do a gig at Senate House Library. We were performing our adaptation of Euripides’ Bacchae, Read more…
This week Woody discusses something he’s been working on for By Jove’s upcoming version of The Bacchae. Hello. I admit I’ve been neglecting the blog recently. I apologise unreservedly for that. You’ll be pleased to know I have at least Read more…