Galatea (Edward’s Boys) @ King Edward VI School
March 18, 2014
I first encountered Lyly in the form of a heavily cut production of Endymion performed by the junior boys of King Edward VI School in 2009, back before they were even known as Edward’s Boys. Having missed their 2010 Mother Bombie, it was something of a delight to return five years later and find Endymion’s …
Dido, Queen of Carthage (Edward’s Boys) @ Christ Church Banqueting Hall, Oxford
September 22, 2013
If Gager’s Dido was accompanied by roast belly of pork and a house red, it seemed appropriate that Marlowe’s more playful take on the Dido story was served up alongside a posh version of cream and jelly. Perry Mills took on an intimidatingly huge room with a production that refused to shy away from the …
Henry V (Edward’s Boys) @ The Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon
March 18, 2013
When I first saw Edward’s Boys, they were a group of mostly eleven year olds performing extracts of John Lyly’s Endymion in a campus drama studio. Last night, the same company (indeed, with many of the same actors) filled the Swan Theatre to bursting with an audience including knights of the realm, RSC actors and …
Antonio’s Revenge (Edward’s Boys) @ King Edward VI Grammar School
March 11, 2011
Perry Mills and his boys are fast becoming the stuff of legend. A cut above your average drama society, Edward’s Boys are currently ploughing their way through the dramatic canon of the early modern childrens’ companies. Obscure plays by Lyly, Middleton, Marston and others, originally written to be performed at the indoor playhouses by specially-trained …
Antonio’s revenge by Edward’s Boys
January 18, 2011
Antonio’s Revenge by John Marston (1599) 7.30pm Wednesday 9th March The Moser Theatre, Wadham College, Oxford Tickets from School Office: 01789-293351. Email: headspa@kes-stratford.org.uk 7.30pm Thursday 10th March Levi Fox Hall, King Edward VI School Tickets from School Office: 01789-293351. Email: headspa@kes-stratford.org.uk 7.30pm Saturday 12th March Levi Fox Hall, King Edward VI School Tickets from School …
A Mad World, My Masters (King Edward VI School) @ The CAPITAL Centre
March 12, 2009
A Mad World, My Masters, the second production from King Edward VI School this year is a very different affair to Endymion. For a start, it’s a relatively full text, compared to the extracts that made up the earlier play. For another, it’s the turn of the older boys, who I’d guess are about 16-18 …
Endymion Extracts (King Edward VI School) @ The CAPITAL Centre
March 1, 2009
One of the CAPITAL Centre’s current Fellows of Creativity is Perry Mills, teacher at King Edward VI School in Stratford, who is running a fascinating project based on 16th-17th century boys’ companies. These companies, the relatively ‘private’ rivals to the adult companies of the period, were hugely popular in their heyday. Their plays, often scandalous, …
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