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Producing every since play written in English prior to 1642, with 38 exceptions. Dropping pods and videos - beyondshakespeare.org
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🔊What's this? The dust has barely settled on our Wyrd Revels, but we're already onto the next thing?
Yes, we're going to the Audio Drama Hubfest this weekend - come on down in person for the day, the evening show (ticketed separately) or listen live online.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/audio-dram...
🗳️It's but a few days to go before the vote closes - if you want to help choose the next projects for us to focus on, join us and go for it.
There is a current lead in the voting... but the differential is fairly slight.
🗳️The public round of voting has now closed in our BIG vote. It's now time to go over to our patrons and subscribers to set the agenda for the next year or so.
Didn't vote in the public round, but want to shape our schedule? Become a patron or free subscriber today!
www.patreon.com/posts/143168...
The BIG Vote - Patron Only Round | Beyond Shakespeare
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November 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
🦹‍♂️Exclusive for our patrons, it's our ongoing series delving into the criminal underworld - as revealed to us by Robert Greene and his cony-catching pamphlets. Another tale of a cozening companion, who would needs try his cunning... #TrueCrime #Kinda #HeSaysItsTrue www.patreon.com/posts/cony-c...
Cony-Catching with Robert Greene 31 (Exclusive) | Beyond Shakespeare
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November 10, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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🗳️The public round of voting has now closed in our BIG vote. It's now time to go over to our patrons and subscribers to set the agenda for the next year or so.
Didn't vote in the public round, but want to shape our schedule? Become a patron or free subscriber today!
www.patreon.com/posts/143168...
The BIG Vote - Patron Only Round | Beyond Shakespeare
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November 9, 2025 at 8:32 AM
🗳️The public round of voting has now closed in our BIG vote. It's now time to go over to our patrons and subscribers to set the agenda for the next year or so.
Didn't vote in the public round, but want to shape our schedule? Become a patron or free subscriber today!
www.patreon.com/posts/143168...
The BIG Vote - Patron Only Round | Beyond Shakespeare
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November 9, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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🚨Latest pod drop - it's The Triumphs of Health and Prosperity by Thomas Middleton, recorded live last year at Middleton's Endgame, our A Game at Chess event. ♟️
🥁This is Middleton's last performed work, introduced by @tracelarkhall.bsky.social #pageantry #LordMayorsShow audioboom.com/posts/880281...
Lord Mayor's Show 1626 (Middleton's Endgame 5)
Let's go over to the live broadcast of the Lord Mayor's Show...
audioboom.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Last call for the public vote! Choose what you want to see us produce next!
🗳️The public round of the big vote closes in a few days - get your vote in for the plays you want us to produce!
Anything written prior to the closing of the theatres in 1642, in English, and not one of the 38 plays we don't do!
forms.gle/a43kWkkHz9JK...
November 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
🚨Latest pod drop - it's The Triumphs of Health and Prosperity by Thomas Middleton, recorded live last year at Middleton's Endgame, our A Game at Chess event. ♟️
🥁This is Middleton's last performed work, introduced by @tracelarkhall.bsky.social #pageantry #LordMayorsShow audioboom.com/posts/880281...
Lord Mayor's Show 1626 (Middleton's Endgame 5)
Let's go over to the live broadcast of the Lord Mayor's Show...
audioboom.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:50 AM
🎉Happy England's Joy Day, for all who celebrate!
"Remember, remember the 6th of November
When Vennar ran off with the loot..."
The Fyre Festival / Willy's Chocolate Experience of its day - was it a con from the off, or just a massive cock up?
audioboom.com/posts/818881...
England's Joy: Con or Cock Up?
Remember, remember the 6th of November, when Vennar ran off with the loot...
audioboom.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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🗳️The public round of the big vote closes in a few days - get your vote in for the plays you want us to produce!
Anything written prior to the closing of the theatres in 1642, in English, and not one of the 38 plays we don't do!
forms.gle/a43kWkkHz9JK...
November 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
🗳️The public round of the big vote closes in a few days - get your vote in for the plays you want us to produce!
Anything written prior to the closing of the theatres in 1642, in English, and not one of the 38 plays we don't do!
forms.gle/a43kWkkHz9JK...
November 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
🚨The dust has started to settle on our live Revels, but we're not idle. Rough mixes of the shows are starting to go out to our £3+ tier patrons, starting with The Witch of Edmonton by various peeps. Includes the pre-show business and the general buzz of the night. www.patreon.com/posts/witch-...
Witch of Edmonton - Rough Mix (Early Access) | Beyond Shakespeare
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November 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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❓Have you voted for a play to go into production by Beyond?
Only the other day someone voted for Hannibal and Scipio.
You could as well.
Or vote for something completely different.
Now, where did we put those elephants?
🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘⛰️
🚨It's that time again - we're looking for a new project to produce into the next season of work. What play do you want to hear from us? This first round is open to all to help create a long list. Get your foot in the door.
Don't let the Shakerley Marmion lobby win! #vote forms.gle/8UPE1FVXTDhQ...
November 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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🚨Latest pod drop - it's King's Gambit, a look at the immediate aftermath of A Game at Chess by Thomas Middleton. With readings of letters and official accounts, plus expert panellists: @danielyabut.bsky.social @tracelarkhall.bsky.social @drwillgreen.bsky.social audioboom.com/posts/879774...
October 31, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Stars and Statues Made Human, Olympian Knights, Princes of Virginia!

This Wednesday in REP we read three masques for the Lady Elizabeth’s Wedding in 1613.
- written by Chapman & Beaumont, designs by Inigo Jones, music by Johnson, Coprario & Confesse

No Farthingales May Be Worn
November 4, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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🚨It's that time again - we're looking for a new project to produce into the next season of work. What play do you want to hear from us? This first round is open to all to help create a long list. Get your foot in the door.
Don't let the Shakerley Marmion lobby win! #vote forms.gle/8UPE1FVXTDhQ...
October 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🔊Latest patron exclusive, more from the Higgins iteration of A Mirror for Magistrates. Today it's How Humber the king of Huns minding to conquer Britain, was drowned in the arm of sea now called Humber.
🌊Or, How places got their names.☠️
#history #audio #exploring www.patreon.com/posts/higgin...
Higgins' Mirror for Magistrates | Exploring 7 (Exclusive) | Beyond Shakespeare
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November 3, 2025 at 9:37 AM
❓Have you voted for a play to go into production by Beyond?
Only the other day someone voted for Hannibal and Scipio.
You could as well.
Or vote for something completely different.
Now, where did we put those elephants?
🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘⛰️
🚨It's that time again - we're looking for a new project to produce into the next season of work. What play do you want to hear from us? This first round is open to all to help create a long list. Get your foot in the door.
Don't let the Shakerley Marmion lobby win! #vote forms.gle/8UPE1FVXTDhQ...
November 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Live show - Beyond Shakespeare with Valentina Vinci, Liza Graham and Robert Crichton #adhubfest2025
November 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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👉 👉 The call is HERE for AAS 2026: Adaptation and Aurality, hosted by Burman University in beautiful Alberta, Canada!

✍️ Proposals due 15 December 2025
🗓️ Conference 7-10 July 2026

Full details posted on the AAS website: www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conferen...
October 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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If we don't hit our goal (which is looking increasingly likely), we cannot make season two.

Even if you can't donate, a share or review goes so far. This is a project Fio and I are so proud of, and we really want to see it through to the end.

Season one is already available for free online!
The Holmwood Foundation - Season Two
Season Two of the horror-fiction audio drama about possession, queer identity, and Dracula's severed head!
www.kickstarter.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:50 PM
🔊Off to the Audio Drama Hubfest this morning, to catch the peeps, and do a little show in the evening. We'll be performing
⚔️Work for Cutlers🗡️
where a Sword and a Rapier are having a fight, and only the power of Dagger (and puns) can save the day.
Online and in-person tickets still available! #Audio
🚨What's that coming over the hill? Is it Live Show? It is a Live Show!
Yes, we're going to the Audio Drama Hubfest 2025. We'll be generally enjoying all the things across the day, then performing in the live show at the end. Tickets-book-now! #drama #AudioDrama
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/audio-dram...
November 1, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Voting for the public round remains open until 8th November - so vote, vote, vote for the plays you want us to work on next!
🚨It's that time again - we're looking for a new project to produce into the next season of work. What play do you want to hear from us? This first round is open to all to help create a long list. Get your foot in the door.
Don't let the Shakerley Marmion lobby win! #vote forms.gle/8UPE1FVXTDhQ...
October 30, 2025 at 9:34 AM
🧙‍♀️This week, as it's Halloween, we've been following up our Wyrd Revels with an exploration of The Late Lancashire Witches by Heywood and Brome. All three videos are on the Tubes of You, with more witchery available upon demand. #drama #exploring #witch #halloween www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
October 31, 2025 at 12:11 PM
🚨Latest pod drop - it's King's Gambit, a look at the immediate aftermath of A Game at Chess by Thomas Middleton. With readings of letters and official accounts, plus expert panellists: @danielyabut.bsky.social @tracelarkhall.bsky.social @drwillgreen.bsky.social audioboom.com/posts/879774...
October 31, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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🚨What's that coming over the hill? Is it Live Show? It is a Live Show!
Yes, we're going to the Audio Drama Hubfest 2025. We'll be generally enjoying all the things across the day, then performing in the live show at the end. Tickets-book-now! #drama #AudioDrama
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/audio-dram...
October 30, 2025 at 9:51 AM