Workshops

We are working alongside a season of early commercial plays staged by The Dolphin’s Back, exploring early stage dramaturgy with a series of annual performance workshops for scholarly and public audiences and a season of Globe staged readings in 2017; for updated information, visit the Events page and The Dolphin’s Back website.

Three Ladies of London and the Red Lion workshop
22 January 2017, The Urban Bar, Whitechapel (on the site of the Red Lion playhouse)
Blog summary here.

Prologue!
Meet Lady Lucre (Emma Denly)!
Diss(ssss)imulation (Philip Cumbus)
Lucre addresses Dissimulation and Fraud (James Askill)
Lady Conscience (Beth Park) ends up paying extortionate rent to Usury (James Thorne)
Meanwhile, in Turkey, Gerontus (Dan Abelson) brings Mercadore (James Askill) before the judge…
Mercadore (James Askill) threatens to give up his religion and “turn Turk”
Enter Simplicity (Leo Wan): “You think I am going to market to buy roast meat, do ye not?”
Simplicity (Leo Wan) and Dissimulation (Philip Cumbus)
Lady Lucre (Emma Denly) spots Lady Conscience’s (Beth Park) face with abomination
A Janus-faced Lady Love (Bella Heesom) laments her state, having married Dissimulation
Judge Nemo (Philip Cumbus) readies himself to sentence the Three Ladies…
Love (Bella Heesom) and Conscience (Beth Park) are determined to stay strong.
Simplicity (Leo Wan) and Dissimulation (Philip Cumbus)
Prologue
Meet Lady Lucre (Emma Denly)!
Diss(ssss)imulation (Philip Cumbus)
Lucre addresses Dissimulation and Fraud (James Askill)
Lady Conscience (Beth Park) ends up paying extortionate rent to Usury (James Thorne)
Meanwhile, in Turkey, Gerontus (Dan Abelson) brings Mercadore (James Askill) before the judge…
Mercadore (James Askill) threatens to give up his religion and “turn Turk”
Enter Simplicity (Leo Wan): “You think I am going to market to buy roast meat, do ye not?”
Simplicity (Leo Wan) and Dissimulation (Philip Cumbus)
Lady Lucre (Emma Denly) spots Lady Conscience’s (Beth Park) face with abomination
A Janus-faced Lady Love (Bella Heesom) laments her state, having married Dissimulation
Judge Nemo (Philip Cumbus) readies himself to sentence the Three Ladies…

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