Holmes and Watson meet Poirot and Miss Marple (alongside the usual suspects) in a spoof homage - who murdered Lady Fanshawe! This mission has led us to create retellings of Shakespeare and Austen, but most frequently it brings us back to much older stories: the myths of Greek tragedy.

tremendous and adds to the plot as we also get to hear the machinations of a touring company as well as the petty jealousies that can bubble and threaten but often just bubble back down again. Lord Charles sets the tone with a rousing patriotic speech that “We are living in a touring paradise ” before embarking on a whistlestop tour of the whole country – England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland – with his erstwhile chauffeur Cavendish played by Roddy Maude-Roxby. Especially in the last section THE PANTHEON has given me a clearer idea of the relationship among the gods. While beginning to develop a new project, By Jove collaborate with UCL and the Institute of Classical Studies to produce one-off poetry events Homer’s Womenand Weaving Women’s Storiesrespectively. This form seemed particularly apt for the moment of a global pandemic; indeed, Theatre of War’s digital Oedipus Project has already touched on that play’s backdrop of plague and pestilence as the most obvious touchstone for recent events.It’s usually associated with bluff and hearty males from the nineteenth and early twentieth century, which seems to have been its heyday. It was originally “for (or fore) George,” and later appeared as “before George,” according to OED citations.

The radio play will be released on By Jove’s Soundcloud page on Sunday 12th July, along with an accompanying podcast discussion between me and By Jove’s co-artistic director and theatre academic David Bullen on the original Greek tragedy and our retelling.The next Oxford citation is from John Dryden’s 1680 comedy The Kind Keeper: “Before George, ’tis so!

This talented, young company is providing the kind of quality fringe theatre usually absent from South London’s SW postcodes. I really thought it had vanished from the world of words, though a quick look around shows quite a number of examples. Over the years we’ve performed retellings and re-imaginings of Euripides’ Bacchae and Medea and Aeschylus’ Oresteia , as well as new poetry inspired by characters from Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey . in England, Captain Francis Blake and Professor Philip Mortimer are determined to lead the resistance !

First piece of the collaboration between RESERVOIR and DARGAUD, publisher of the Blake and Mortimer series, the RESERVOIR Blake and Mortimer "By Jove !

Proin porttitor, orci nec nonummy molestie, enim est eleifend mi, non fermentum diam nisl sit amet erat. These recordings have opened up major productions to viewers who may otherwise never have seen them. In the heart of Asia on September 26, 1946, Colonel Olrik is preparing to lead an armada of bombers to set the capitals of the free world ablaze… "By Jove !It’s women only, and as they unite in ecstatic transcendence, Agave begins to lose her grip on reality. It is Francis Blake who indicates the minutes with his arm, the hour and minute digits using the lettering of the comic strip. mm for total comfort when worn, reinforces the vintage look of the piece, mounted on a black leather strap fitted with a folding clasp.