By Susanna Dye. This post originally appeared on the blog for Siobhan Davies Studios, where Susanna and collaborator Manon Ouimet have held a web residency: you can explore more of their work on the website. Intro This piece of writing illuminates the role of stimming in my research and the Read more…
If you enjoyed #MedeaLive, you’ll be just as excited as we are about our next lockdown theatre project: on 12th July we’re releasing a brand new audio recording by SJ Brady of her brilliant epic poem HERE SHE COMES, complete with original music by Vivienne Youel! It’s a lyrical spoken word retelling of the story of Read more…
Announcement time! We’re joining in with #LockdownTheatre to bring you not one but TWO of our shows. First up is Wendy Haines’ “bold and beautiful” adaptation of MEDEA, revamped for digital performance but with all of the original cast! Join us on Sunday 14 June at 7pm on Youtube for the livestreamed Read more…
The UK is now in its seventh week of lockdown in an effort to fight the spread of the novel coronavirus and the disease it causes, COVID-19. While observing proper social distancing measures is doubtless the correct response and saving lives is the most important thing right now, the adverse Read more…
Happy New Year, everyone! As we proceed into 2020, it seems as good a time as any to take a look back at what we achieved as a company in the 2010s. Although we weren’t established at the very beginning of the decade, we produced work in nine of the Read more…
On Thursday 24th October, members of By Jove performed scenes from the developing Orestes Project at the launch of a new research centre at the Open University, Gender and Otherness in the Humanities (GOTH). By Jove’s Christine Plastow is a founding member of the research centre, which seeks to support Read more…
If you follow us on Twitter, you probably already know that a couple of weeks ago we held our longest session yet of research and development for our ongoing project looking at queerness in the myth of Orestes! We contended with intense temperatures and even more intense emotions brought on by working Read more…
On Friday 26th July, we hosted two sharings from the work we produced during a week of research and development. This work was generously funded by the Arts Council England, the Institute of Classical Studies, William Jackson Food Group, and the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. This work Read more…
Way back in October we announced our new project in development: a retelling of the story of Orestes and Pylades through a queer lens. Since then, we’ve been working hard behind the scenes to get the project on its feet, from narrowing down themes and concepts, through beginning to generate text, Read more…
Now we’re in January 2019, it seems like the perfect time to look back at what By Jove did over the last 12 months. 2018 was an exciting year for us, and despite not staging any full shows last year, we still made a lot of exciting creative work and Read more…