On Wednesday, the 1612 revival of Henry IV Part Two will follow our last week’s reading of Part One, as the King’s Men find the retiring Shakespeare still looking over their collective shoulders.
#ShakespeareSunday

While our playreading sessions are on summer break our playmakers are wrestling with complex questions such as “How do you retrieve the headless corpse of a relative from a heavily guarded Venetian piazza?”
The answer, of course, involves sailors, friars, devils and The Cunning Florentines.

UPDATED: the trailer for our Playmakers’ newest writing project, now with a title reveal!
(really not #ShakespeareSunday !)

REP’s Playmakers have a new project: a new source, a new story, a new date, a new set of characters to match with a new set of King’s Men actors; eventually, a new play that looks like an old one.

Thanks to all those who read and responded so positively to the Playmakers’ new/old play The Lady of Chabry. We’re already working through your observations & suggestions to refine our text for a further reading later this year.
Below actual footage of our reaction to feedback from Martin Wiggins.

“The Muses forbid that I should restrain your meddling…”

On Wednesday our readers (both ordinary & extraordinary) will meddle with Catiline’s Conspiracy by Ben Jonson; here is one minute from his address to his readers; the play itself being rather longer than that, we shall begin at 7pm.
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