Hearing company members read new work over Skype reconnected us with each other and with the material we’ve been working with for over a year now.

Britain By Jove collects together all 4 episodes of the famous comedy travelogue produced by British Pathe in the 1960s to promote holidays in Great Britain. in England, Captain Francis Blake and Professor Philip Mortimer are determined to lead the resistance! This approach will make mythology interesting for those who have already read too many standard mythology books and may make remembering the myths easier as it ties them to words the reader may already know.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The outcome of our experimentation with digital performance had to be putting it out there for people to see.

In the fourteenth century, when the English started saying “by Jove,” it was a way to say “my god” or “good god” without blaspheming the Christian god. The OED’s first “by George” quotation is from a 1694 translation of Rudens, a comedy by Plautus: “By George, you shan’t be a Sowce the better for what’s in it. Today, we’re going to talk about the origins of “by Jove” so you, too, can sound all fun and old-timey.As a group of theatre makers coming together creatively, our work is always collaborative, always an experiment, always evolving. Since 2011, I’ve been a part of By Jove Theatre Company , a theatre collective with a feminist, socialist ethos that tells old stories in new ways. 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.