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…
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…
(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 on Monday 9th March. We’re currently in the process of 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, called “Before They Told You What You Are”, to an 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 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 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 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 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 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 Read more…