This year’s annual Game of Thrones fever was an intense few weeks. The series is coming to a close, drawing together loose threads and tying up character arcs established six seasons ago. This is hugely exciting for long term fans of the series and fans of good television in general Read more…
Hi readers! I’m Chrissie, By Jove’s Research and Education Co-ordinator, and now, your friendly neighbourhood blog editor – you might know me from our recent semi-academic article series SPARAGMOS accompanying our Season of Violent Women. I’m taking over the running of the blog to give our writers more time to Read more…
Next week will see the debut of Here She Comes, the second show in our Season of Violent Women. Ahead of the opening night on Monday, Wendy Haines caught up with the show’s writer, director, and performer SJ Brady… SJ Brady is long-time friend, colleague and collaborator; a whirlwind of creativity, Read more…
In anticipation of the second show in By Jove’s Season of Violent Women, an epic poem based on Euripides’ Bacchae (written and performed by By Jove’s own SJ Brady with music by Vivienne Youel) Alexander Woodward addresses the impossible question of what makes a poem. Hello. This is going to Read more…
It’s been a grim week in politics (at least for some). Here, our co-artistic director David Bullen shares his thoughts… Last week we performed Margaret of Anjou, a reinvention of Shakespeare’s first tetralogy. In the programme we noted the parallels in the play with the American presidential election: Margaret is Read more…
This week on the By Jove blog, something we’ve not had in a while: a good, old-fashioned RANT, courtesy of our co-artistic director, David Bullen… This week Shakespeare’s Globe announced that their artistic director, Emma Rice, is to step down in 2018 after producing a mere two seasons at the Read more…
With less than two weeks to go until the opening of our Season of Violent Women, co-artistic director David Bullen explores why we might have to think about renaming the whole thing… The current race to be the next president of the USA has historic significance: for the first time Read more…
Last week we were excited to announce the four women taking on Shakespeare’s ‘new’ play in a month’s time. Now you can find a little bit more about them on this week’s blog… Come November, four women will perform Margaret of Anjou at the Gallery on the Corner in Battersea Read more…
Our resident musical theatre expert, Nicole Savin, has dug into the archives to highlight some of the reasons why musicals are home to so many violent women… Pop. Six. Squish. Violent women are fairly easy to find in Greek tragedy – By Jove have dug up two for our upcoming season. Agave (from Read more…
This week, By Jove artistic associate Susanna Dye provides some insight into the start of her process for the company’s upcoming project… To begin our Season of Violent Women, By Jove are staging the British premiere of Margaret of Anjou. The play text has been pieced together from Shakespeare’s Henry VI trilogy Read more…