THE THISBY PROJECT

Playing the Women’s Part on Shakespeare’s Stage

Extracts selected by Carol Chillington Rutter

Directed by Perry Mills

Music by Stephen Dodsworth

 

From Turberville’s translation of Ovid’s Heroides : Ariadne

The Argument: Jack Fielding

The Letter: Oliver Hayes

 

The Two Gentlemen of Verona. 4.1

Proteus: James Butt

Julia/Sebastian: Oliver Hayes

Silvia: Ben Darlington

 

Twelfth Night. 1.5

Olivia: James Butt

Viola/Cesario: Alex Seys

 

Twelfth Night. 1.5

Olivia: Ben Darlington

Viola/Cesario: Oliver Hayes

 

Antony and Cleopatra. 1.3

Cleopatra: Ben Darlington

Antony: Alex Simon

 

Antony and Cleopatra. 2.5

Cleopatra: James Butt

Messenger: Alex Simon

Charmian: Tom Adams

 

Troilus and Cressida. 1.2

Cressida: Oliver Hayes

Pandarus: Perry Mills

Boy: Jack Fielding

 

Epicoene. 1.4

Clerimont: Oliver Hayes

Boy: Jack Fielding

Truewit: Ben Darlington

 

Epicoene. 4.4

Mrs. Otter: James

Mrs. Mavis: Tom Adams

Lady Centaur: Alex Simon

Mrs. Morose (Epicoene): Jack Fielding

Mrs. Haughty: Alex Seys

Clerimont: Oliver Hayes

Truewit: Ben Darlington

 

Golding’s translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book XIII: Hecuba.

Hecuba: Ben Darlington

Latin Reader: Tom Adams

Narrator: Oliver Hayes

 

A Midsummer Night’s Dream. 5.1

Pyramus: Alex Seys

Thisby: James Butt

 

March 19 2005: Big School, King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon