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Producing every since play written in English prior to 1642, with 38 exceptions. Dropping pods and videos - beyondshakespeare.org
Getting really interested in Thoms Dekker - is there an early modernist with particular expertise on him?
07.10.2025 16:01 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0Oct 21-25 - Tickets are on sale now! Buy tickets for multiple shows and an automatic ticket discount applies. Some season tickets are still available, but those will disappear soon! Catch one, catch them all! #drama #horror #Halloween (almost) www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...
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Black background with red slashes across, indistinct image of someone screaming, overlaid with text -Saturday 25th (After Faustus) End of Season Panel Discussion with... Professor Liz Oakley-Brown is Professor in English Literature at Lancaster University. Currently working on Tudor Gothic for Cambridge University Press and teaching Premodern Gothic. Dr Rebekah King graduated from Cambridge with a PhD in English looking at how magicians were depicted on the early modern stage. As well as being a researcher, she is an award-winning writer. Dr Tabitha Stanmore Author of Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic, winner of the Katharine Briggs Award 2024 and Editor’s Pick by the New York Times. Tabitha is a specialist in medieval and early modern English magic and witchcraft. A Week of Devils, Witches, Cunning Folk and Horror at the White Bear Theatre in Kenningtonwww.beyondshakespeare.org
We also have some post show discussions and panels - one following Thyestes (details anon) and also this epic post-season discussion with @earlymodlancs.bsky.social @rebekahking.bsky.social @magicnotwitches.bsky.social - this follows the final show of Doctor Faustus 1616 on the Saturday.
07.10.2025 08:56 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
🚨A few more tickets sold for our Wyrd Revels - a week of devils, witches, cunning folk, and pastry based horror. Recording live for the podcast, we're also live streaming the audio feed for our £3 tier patrons as well. It'll be a bit rough, but it'll give the people who pay for it all a taste.
07.10.2025 08:56 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
♟️The second half of our live performance of A Game at Chess by Thomas Middleton has dropped! It's part of a much longer series of recordings from our live event Middleton's Endgame from August last year - and there's still more to come! #ThomasMiddleton #AudioDrama audioboom.com/posts/878525...
03.10.2025 08:15 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Anyone aware of any non-Shakespeare early modern plays being performed Jan-Mar 2026 in London? Setting texts for a Renaissance Drama module and would love to track down something the students can go and see!
06.10.2025 11:12 — 👍 12 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 0We have a season planned very late March, but DM us if you have a request we could look into.
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🔊Exclusive for patrons - More from the Higgins iteration of A Mirror for Magistrates - and a bit more on the general downward mobility of King Albanact the Youngest Son of Brutus. #drama #poetry #audio www.patreon.com/posts/higgin...
06.10.2025 11:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Dr Tabitha Stanmore is new to the podcast, but as the author of Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic, helps us to draw together all of the themes of our Wyrd Revels.
To catch this panel, book now for the Saturday matinee of Doctor Faustus (1616) www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...
Tickets for The Witch of Edmonton are moving fairly fast - season tickets for the whole season are still available as well. Catch one, catch them all - a week of pre-modern drama at The White Bear in Kennington from 21st October.
Book now, or we summon the Dog!
www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...
Black background with red slashes across, indistinct image of someone screaming, overlaid with text -Saturday 25th (After Faustus) End of Season Panel Discussion with... Professor Liz Oakley-Brown is Professor in English Literature at Lancaster University. Currently working on Tudor Gothic for Cambridge University Press and teaching Premodern Gothic. Dr Rebekah King graduated from Cambridge with a PhD in English looking at how magicians were depicted on the early modern stage. As well as being a researcher, she is an award-winning writer. Dr Tabitha Stanmore Author of Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic, winner of the Katharine Briggs Award 2024 and Editor’s Pick by the New York Times. Tabitha is a specialist in medieval and early modern English magic and witchcraft.A Week of Devils, Witches, Cunning Folk and Horrorat the White Bear Theatre in Kenningtonwww.beyondshakespeare.org
Saturday 25th October we're performing the 1616 text for Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe and his many (occasionally posthumous) friends. Following that is our season panel discussing the Wyrd in the early modern, the plays we're covered and more - but who are these wonderful panellists?
03.10.2025 10:56 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 2
Tickets for The Witch of Edmonton are moving fairly fast - season tickets for the whole season are still available as well. Catch one, catch them all - a week of pre-modern drama at The White Bear in Kennington from 21st October.
Book now, or we summon the Dog!
www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...
Dr Tabitha Stanmore is new to the podcast, but as the author of Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic, helps us to draw together all of the themes of our Wyrd Revels.
To catch this panel, book now for the Saturday matinee of Doctor Faustus (1616) www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...
@rebekahking.bsky.social joins us, having previously chatted about the idea of Early Modern Horror on the pod, bringing her knowledge on how magicians were depicted on the early modern stage and much, much more. audioboom.com/posts/874911...
03.10.2025 10:56 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
@earlymodlancs.bsky.social is joining us once again, having chatted with us about Fighting Snails and Robin Hood. This time we're tapping into expertise in the Tudor Gothic and more! It will be lovely to chat in person, without zoom!
audioboom.com/posts/812116...
audioboom.com/posts/873421...
Black background with red slashes across, indistinct image of someone screaming, overlaid with text -Saturday 25th (After Faustus) End of Season Panel Discussion with... Professor Liz Oakley-Brown is Professor in English Literature at Lancaster University. Currently working on Tudor Gothic for Cambridge University Press and teaching Premodern Gothic. Dr Rebekah King graduated from Cambridge with a PhD in English looking at how magicians were depicted on the early modern stage. As well as being a researcher, she is an award-winning writer. Dr Tabitha Stanmore Author of Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic, winner of the Katharine Briggs Award 2024 and Editor’s Pick by the New York Times. Tabitha is a specialist in medieval and early modern English magic and witchcraft.A Week of Devils, Witches, Cunning Folk and Horrorat the White Bear Theatre in Kenningtonwww.beyondshakespeare.org
Saturday 25th October we're performing the 1616 text for Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe and his many (occasionally posthumous) friends. Following that is our season panel discussing the Wyrd in the early modern, the plays we're covered and more - but who are these wonderful panellists?
03.10.2025 10:56 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 2
🚨For all of Middleton's Endgame, as well as other discussions and work on the play, go to our handy playlist. Coming soon - The King's Gambit: looking at the response to the play by the court and King James, and much much more! #drama #history #chess audioboom.com/playlists/46...
03.10.2025 08:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
♟️The second half of our live performance of A Game at Chess by Thomas Middleton has dropped! It's part of a much longer series of recordings from our live event Middleton's Endgame from August last year - and there's still more to come! #ThomasMiddleton #AudioDrama audioboom.com/posts/878525...
03.10.2025 08:15 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
🔊Early access release for our wonderful patrons - it's a chat with @audioandrea.bsky.social about pre-modern drama on the radio, the challenges and freedoms that the medium allow. Our patrons get early access to pod releases every Wednesday! #drama #AudioDrama #Radio www.patreon.com/posts/discus...
01.10.2025 08:44 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Season and individual show tickets available for now - join us at The White Bear Theatre in Kennington this October!
#drama #theatre #excitement #horror #BeforeHorror #Horrorsky www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...
Something... Wyrd is coming.
😈Devils!
🐶Demonic familiars!
🧙♀️Witches!
😼Cunning Folk!
🥧Unspeakable Pastry!
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😈Have you booked yet for the Beyond Wyrd Revels? A week of devils, witches, cunning folk and horror in the run up to Halloween! #BookNow or Mephistopheles will be very cross... www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...
27.09.2025 09:54 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
👑Meanwhile, over on our patreon feed, more archive recordings of rehearsals for Entertaining Henry from June this year. We've reached Wednesday, where we walked through Youth and Thersites - mostly audio, but some video.
www.patreon.com/posts/entert...
😈Have you booked yet for the Beyond Wyrd Revels? A week of devils, witches, cunning folk and horror in the run up to Halloween! #BookNow or Mephistopheles will be very cross... www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...
27.09.2025 09:54 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
🔊Mini update on the upcoming Wyrd Revels - text rehearsals are underway, guest spots are coming together.
Are you coming to the Revels?
audioboom.com/posts/878324...
🧵A busy week of new things dropping on our various channels. We know we do a lot of plays, and it can be overwhelming, but it's kinda what we're here for - so, a quick round up of this week from the World of Beyond... #EarlyModern #Medieval #Drama #History #Storytelling
19.09.2025 09:16 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
🐷Exclusive for our wonderful patrons - it's more explorations of the book of Doctor Faustus, chapter 38. And the not so good doctor is selling swine. Five swine. 🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖 Six dollars a piece💰. I'm sure there won't be any magical jiggery-pokery. #DoctorFaustus www.patreon.com/posts/doctor...
22.09.2025 10:23 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Book now for the Beyond Wyrd Revels 2025 - live audio recordings of plays from beyond the veil. www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...
23.09.2025 08:33 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Image of Roel Fox as Doctor Faustus, seen through slashes in the black background of the image. Text overlaid, as per the post - beyondshakespeare.org
🚨Wyrd Revels 2025
21st to 25th October at The White Bear Theatre
A week of 😈devils, 🧙♀️witches, cunning folk and horror! Featuring the plays The Witch of Edmonton, The Wise-woman of Hogston, Thyestes and both versions of Doctor Faustus!
🎟️Season and single show tickets available. #BookNow #Live #Horror
Book now for the Beyond Wyrd Revels 2025 - live audio recordings of plays from beyond the veil. www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...
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