This post by Mike Cordner originally appeared on The Dutch Courtesan project website. We interviewed Oliver Ford Davis in 2013. The Olivier Award-winning actor Oliver Ford Davies is a Professional Associate of the Department of Theatre, Film and Television at the University of York and gave the 2011 Cantor Modern Art Lecture at the University […]
How should we stage neglected plays?
I originally wrote this post for the Dutch Courtesan project site. On 2nd July, Michael Billington wrote an article for the Guardian asking ‘Is it OK to rewrite classic plays?’ Billington’s article, in which he raises concerns about the perceived need to simplify early modern plays for a modern audience, has sparked a heated discussion, […]
Film: The Troublesome Reign of King John
In July 2011 a cast of University of York undergraduate students, from the Departments of Theatre, Film and Television, English and History, performed extracts of the Queen’s Men’s The Troublesome Reign of King John. Discussion of project has been published in The Guild and Guild Buildings of Shakespeare’s Stratford, ed. J. R. Mulryne (Ashgate, 2012; […]