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Beyond ShakespeareAuthor: Beyond Shakespeare
From the earliest drama in English, to the closing of the theatres in 1642, there was a hell of a lot of drama produced - and a lot of it wasn't by Shakespeare. Apart from a few noble exceptions these plays are often passed over, ignored or simply unknown. This podcast presents full audio productions of the plays, fragmentary and extant, that shaped the theatrical world that shaped our dramatic history. Language: en Genres: Arts, History, Performing Arts Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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444: The Witch of Edmonton by Dekker, Ford and Rowley (LIVE Full Cast Audio Recording)
Episode 444
Friday, 31 July, 2026
The Witch of Edmonton by Thomas Dekker, John Ford & William RowleyRecorded live at the White Bear Theatre on Tuesday 21st October at 7.30pmCW: Below the cast listCast:Aliki Chapple - Old BanksRobert Crighton – JusticeTobias Deacon - Sir ArthurBrian Eastty - Old ThorneyPamela Flanagan - Third Clown / Constable / First CountrymanAlex Kapila - Winifred / SawgutEmma Kemp – SusanSusan Kyd – Mother SawyerNat Kennedy – Cuddy BanksRoel Fox – WarbeckLiza Graham - Second Morris / Second MorrisAisling Groves-McKeown - Prologue / First Morris / Third Countryman / AnnKeith Hill - Old CarterAlexandra Kataigida - Katherine / Spirit / HamlucOliver Maynard - Somerton / Fourth Morris / RatcliffeKit McGuire – DogSimon Nader Mirza – Frank ThorneyMusic by Roel FoxLive Show Technical Manager – Valentina VinciCompany Text Coach – Liza GrahamContinuity – Dennis CaoukiProduced by Robert CrightonCW: Violence, misogyny, murder, stabbing, injustice, demonic creatures. Our patrons received the rough mix of this episode in November 2025 - about 9 months early!The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on social media @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.orgYou can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQThe Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.About our sponsors - the Malone Society. The Society was founded in 1906 at the initiative of A.W. Pollard, and for over a century they have published (almost) every year edited volumes of early printed and manuscript texts of both well-known and neglected plays. They also publish collections of documentary material relating to the performance and reception of early drama. Their best-known publications include W.W. Greg’s edition of Sir Thomas More, a collaborative history play, and A.C. Dunstan’s edition of the earliest surviving original play in English to have been written by a woman, Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam.Their membership is international and open to anyone interested in early drama. Members receive their annual volumes and are able to buy books from their backlist at low prices.In addition to their publications, they support scholarship of early drama through fellowships and research grants, an annual prize for graduate students, and performances and symposia.The Society is named after Edmond Malone, born in Dublin in 1741, a great editor, textual scholar and theatre historian, whose work continues to shape studies in early drama.
