By Jove, Biggles!: Life of Captain W.E.Johns

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The supreme deity of the Romans was Jove or Jupiter, wielder of thunderbolts (he was Zeus to the Greeks).

Shakespeare used this expression in Love’s Labors Lost in 1588: “By Jove, I always took three threes for nine. By Ioue master Marchant, by sea or by land / Would get but smale argent if I did not stand, / His very good master, I may say to you.

The super-talented twosome assume various guises, even playing scenes holding multiple hats, representing the absentee cast. Well, the use of “by Jove” as a euphemistic oath showed up about the same time as the euphemistic use of “for George. Since 2011, I’ve been a part of By Jove Theatre Company , a theatre collective with a feminist, socialist ethos that tells old stories in new ways. Re-interpreting 'The Art of Coarse Acting' with a farcical result, it's time to guess WhoDunWhat and how. NID cookie, set by Google, is used for advertising purposes; to limit the number of times the user sees an ad, to mute unwanted ads, and to measure the effectiveness of ads.

The shows were presented by much loved ventriloquist Ray Alan and his celebrated companion Lord Charles and filmed in full colour. Although Bacchae is another work of Greek tragedy, this production is designed more closely to evoke the ancient oral poets who performed long tales such as the Iliad and Odyssey ; SJ Brady performs the text solo, from memory, focusing on Agave but giving voice to a range of characters and utilising repeated linguistic motifs.Be the first to find out about exciting opportunities with By Jove – auditions, tickets, and events – by joining our mailing list. Contributions included creative uses of screen-sharing, virtual backgrounds, point-of-view video, music performed live over a pre-recorded reading, and much more—and showed us that technology that may on the surface seem to restrict movement, dynamism, and emotional connection can, in fact, be incredibly stirring and explore ‘liveness’ in all sorts of ways. Haines’ version of Medea is a modern one, with an almost sole focus on the woman herself as her inner monologue is split between three voices.

This part of the book does not follow much of a progression, each chapter being a completely separate unit segregated in suitable sections, e. Proin porttitor, orci nec nonummy molestie, enim est eleifend mi, non fermentum diam nisl sit amet erat. We started with weekly one-hour writing groups, setting a prompt and preparing new pieces of writing related to our ongoing project re-examining the myths of Orestes, his siblings, and his lover Pylades.

Theatre, an art form and industry that has traditionally relied on the gathering of a (sometimes large) group of people in close quarters, has naturally been hit hard by the global coronavirus crisis.