Edward's Boys Present: The Woman in the Moon by John Lyly (c. 1590). Performances on March 8th-11th and 28th, in Oxford, London, Stratford and Warwick. Get your tickets now!
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On 30th September 2017, forty-two boys from the King Edward VI School in Stratford-upon-Avon filled the Great Hall at the Old Palace School in Croydon with colour, music and laughter. Directed by their English teacher, Perry Mills, they revived Thomas Nashe’s sole-authored play-cum-pageant in the same venue for which it was originally written and where it was first performed to entertain John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury, in autumn 1592.  This extraordinary all-boy company, who have been staging plays from the repertory of early modern boys’ companies to great critical and popular acclaim since 2005, had already performed Nashe’s play at
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After several years of careful negotiation, we are delighted to announce a unique collaboration between Edward’s Boys and the Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral (the original “Paul’s Boys”, one of the two main boys’ companies at the turn of the seventeenth century).
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On behalf of the whole team of international scholars preparing the Complete Works of John Marston, I’d like to thank you for what turned out to be a fascinating, exciting and inspiring day. We academics have been working on these texts for two years, but this was the first time that most of us had had chance to encounter any of them in performance, and it was a great revelation to see the work that your students had done. It gave us a unique opportunity to ‘roadtest’ these rarely performed plays and we gained many insights into seeing how they worked: not least,
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We recently ran a four-day conference on the first thirty years of theatre-making in this country, exploring the earliest London playhouses and their impact on literary and theatrical culture. Whilst we gathered together a range of scholarly approaches to this topic (archaeological, archival, literary and performance-focused), it was important to me to get real live performers into the conference and part of our conversation. We saw Dolphin’s Back perform a full production of John Lyly’s Woman in the Moon and explore non-theatrical archival material, and the Royal Shakespeare Company and the theatre-maker Emma Frankland each shared work-in-progress. Our delegates therefore
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Edward’s Boys’ production of Thomas Middleton’s A Trick to Catch an Old One begs the question of why Middleton’s city comedies are not performed more often by companies like the RSC. That said, it also reminds us how an amateur boys’ company, like Edward’s Boys, can capture the reckless energy of Middleton’s boy plays that may elude adult professional actors. Behind the raucous enthusiasm of Edward’s Boys’ performance is an intelligent, well-crafted production by Perry Mills that fully comprehends the dramatic value of the boy actor in a play that stages generational conflict so starkly. Trick to Catch an Old
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John Lyly’s The Woman in the Moon, directed by Perry Mills, will be presented as part of the Before Shakespeare Project.
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We have managed to increase the audience capacity for the ‘home’ performances of Summer’s Last Will and Testament on 26th and 27th September in the Levi Fox Hall at King Edward VI School in Stratford-upon-Avon. Wednesday 27th has already sold out the extra tickets, however, currently, there are tickets available for Tuesday 26th. But be quick…
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Performances in Stratford, London and Croydon commencing Tuesday 26th September
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