The UK’s first coronavirus lockdown timed itself pretty perfectly with the release of the much anticipated Animal Crossing: New Horizons game by Nintendo. The nation was locked inside, but in your lap was the chance to build your own island getaway and help the quarantine hours slip by. For the uninitiated, Animal Crossing is a game that allows you to slowly build a personalised home and island (getting into considerable debt with a racoon), and Read more

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 development of my neurodivergent movement practice. I began writing it to explore my personal relationship with stimming and my pathway into working with it. My Read more

As we get ready for the release of a brand new recording of SJ Brady’s Here She Comes, an adaptation of Euripides’ Bacchae, David Bullen takes a look at the character of Agave from the ancient to the modern stage. Agave appears at the end of Euripides’ Bacchae in one of the most haunting scenes in Greek tragedy. At the beginning of the play she left the city with all the other women of Thebes, ‘stung to 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 Agave, based on Euripides’ Bacchae. It’ll be available to stream anytime on our Soundcloud, but we’re also hosting a live listening party on Youtube on 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 show. As an added bonus, we’ll have both pre- and post-show content for you. Follow our socials to get updates and snippets from behind the 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 effects of the lockdown have been wide-ranging, from the personal to the economic. Among the countless industries that have been affected by the closure of 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 ten years of the decade, and are pretty impressed with how far we’ve come! Time for a trip down memory lane… 2011 In 2011 By Read more

Too many articles about Caryl Churchill start with a tone of surprise that she is still a pioneering writer in her later years. Innovation is not necessarily the territory of the young, and Churchill is living proof that the myth of age paralleling conservativism is just that—a myth. At By Jove challenging and re-shaping myths is our game, and Churchill has become a radical inspiration for all of us when we try to dismantle 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 and share research into the relationship between gender and otherness throughout time and across the Arts and Humanities. The GOTH Launch opened with comments from 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 with such a moving and often traumatic story, but in the end we were really pleased with how it went.   The majority of the Read more