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Galatea

Before Shakespeare has been thinking about John Lyly’s play Galatea (1584) as part of our various collaborations with the theatremaker Emma Frankland and Emma’s production of the play. Here, we include all our materials on the play, the production, and its research and development, from workshop insights with performers, translating the play into British Sign Language, innovative ways of working with early modern drama, and understanding the queer and racial implications of Lyly’s radical play.

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  • by Callan Davies

The Sound of Lyly: Galatea Interview

We recently had a chance to interview Vicky Abbott, the musical lead on Emma Frankland's Galatea project, and we asked her what it was like writing music for a sixteenth-century play in a modern production.
  • by Callan Davies

Galatea in Cornwall: Finding Gods in Truro

For this week's R&D workshops, Emma Frankland and Mydd Pharo are joined by Kellan Frankland, Krishna Istha, Mzz Kimberley, and Nadia Nadarajah in and around Truro (based at the Hall of Cornwall, thanks to their support) for a week looking at Galatea's Gods and their divine interactions.
  • by Callan Davies

Getting Mortal in St Austell: Galatea in Cornwall

We are joining Emma Frankland and her crew of artists and players for the next few days.
  • by Liz Oakley-Brown

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Galatea Workshop Response: Hester Bradley

We are very pleased to host Hester Bradley's response to the Galatea workshops hosted at the Jerwood Space in August this year. Hester is a PhD student at Oxford Brookes, whose work explores what representations of the moon by John Lyly and William Shakespeare can reveal about contemporary ideas of female identity and personhood.

  • by Andy Kesson

Galatea Workshops: Let us into the grove

Yesterday, we took some of the scenes we'd been working on to the park.  These photos show moments throughout the play surrounding the lovers, Galatea and Phillida: