This Week By Jove Artistic Associate (Research & Education) Christine Plastow discusses how a performance affects the study of a text. Hello, M’dears, Woody here. The blog’s had a brief hiatus while I was off saving villages from rampaging monsters, but now we here at By Jove HQ have a treat for you. Often the things posted up here are rather casual in tone. This is partly because I like to create a laid-back, welcoming feel Read more
This week Woody critiques your hopes and fears, and those of fictional characters. You can buy tickets for our Othello here. Hello. I’m writing to you from the past. It’s not as impressive as writing from the future, granted, but given my debilitating fear of physicists it’s as close as I’m going to get. I suppose technically I’m always writing to you from the past, but I’m a bit further back than normal. If all goes to Read more
On the 28th July Woody sat down with Rachel Hawkes and Kate Hunter who play our Othello and Desdemona respectively.This second part of the interview looks at how they approach their acting and how they made their characters’ relationship seem real. Director SJ Brady and pillar of By Jove James Walker-Black were also present and occasionally chimed in with something interesting. You can read the first part of the interview here. You can buy tickets Read more
This week Woody caught up with Rachel Hawkes and Kate Hunter who play our Othello and Desdemona respectively and pretended he knew how to conduct an interview. Writer/director SJ Brady and pillar of By Jove activities James Walker-Black were also present and occasionally chime in with interesting things. You can buy tickets to Othello here. [Note: The following transcript has been tidied up slightly. I thought it better to leave out the the barely articulate rambles I Read more
This Week Woody muses on the laughs and laments made possible by dramatic irony. Before we get started a quick reminder about our Othello. You can support it here. It will be on at the CLF Art Cafe in the Bussey Building, Peckham 9th-21st August. Tickets will be on sale shortly, so you’d better be ready. You’ll have to be quick, like Zephyrus the Wind! Right, on with the post! Hello. You see, we here at By Read more
This week Woody has a bit of a look at one the of the more famous speeches in English theatre. Hello.We here at By Jove HQ are thinking on Shakespeare. Our current project is the Bard’s Othello. It’s new writing in conversation with the original text, and we play about with the ideas of discrimination in the original by having a lesbian Othello. It will be staged Saturday 9th to Thursday 21st August at CLF Art Read more
Hannah Wiltshire runs the lighting for our shows. She’s also a friend with whom I enjoy discussing films. This week she discusses a problem with The LEGO Movie for us. I’m going to preface this with the statement that I loved the LEGO Movie. I watched it twice in the cinema and both times I was howling with laughter. I was impressed with how LEGO had the balls to reclaim their product as a toy Read more
This week Woody discusses why Art in general and Theatre in particular are good ways to change the world. Hello. We here at By Jove HQ tick most if not all of the appropriate boxes on the questionnaire “So You Think You Might Be An Idealistic Artistic Collective”. We have the vague, constant disappointment with politics; generalised optimism for the future; and a fine selection of -isms which help us build the lens through which we Read more
This week Woody shares some news about a thing. Hello. Firstly, I am aware the little italic sentence above this one could be more interesting. Also more informative. Apparently today is not a day in which my brain is going to be able to write abstracts. Shouldn’t be too much of a burden. Writing this post is the only thing I have to do today in which abstract-writing will be necessary. It’s not that I Read more
Hello. We here at By Jove love myths. Old Stories, legends, tales from the cultural canon – call them what you will, they are excellent. As a Classicist, I have a particular bias towards the stories of ancient Greece and Rome. While By Jove’s definition goes beyond these stories, they are some of the richest-known soil for myth-picking and probably what first comes to mind when one thinks of myth. The ancient sources for these myths are Read more