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 By Jove and movement director for our upcoming Pride & Read more…
For this rebirth of By Jove’s period panto, we’ve added in the welcome addition of a chorus. This chorus consists of four women, and within only a few rehearsals, already some fascinating questions of how to mock or criticize ‘objectification’ have arisen. The chorus are essentially fulfilling the role Read more…
To kick off our special series of articles on Austen, panto, and their presence in Britain today, our Artistic Director David Bullen takes a look at how Austen’s work has become increasingly mythic… So, two centuries have passed with Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice in the world. This landmark Read more…
Contributor Alison Brown discusses the reasoning behind our upcoming production. Did you know the pantomime can be traced back to the middle ages? Oh yes it can! The morality plays performed in village greens had much in common with es of theatre and it has evolved over hundreds of years. Read more…
So, one of the questions I’ve been asked most often since we embarked on Pride and Prejudice: The Panto is: ‘doesn’t By Jove only work with myths?’ This is completely true. But here’s the thing: Pride and Prejudice is, in fact, mythic. I should explain. The way we define myth in Read more…
Warning – Rant oncoming. In everyone’s television viewing life there’s that classic moment we’re all familiar with: an overwhelming feeling of furious indignation at what we are seeing on our screens. Sometimes it’s a missed penalty shootout, sometimes it’s someone getting a really, really obvious question wrong – but the Read more…
In the coming months we’ll be keeping you up to date with all the latest goings on at By Jove, including rehearsal updates on our upcoming Christmas spectacular Pride & Prejudice: The Panto! But that’s not all! No… We’re not ashamed to say we’re a politically minded theatre company. It’s Read more…