Beyond Shakespeare

Spoilers: The Life and Death of Jack Straw (Act 2, Scenes 2 to 5) Jack Straw is not a long play, but that won't stop us going into ridiculous amounts of detail about it. The rest of Act 2, following the goose scene, is a blur of incident as the rebellion sparks off into violence following a failed parley on the banks of the river Thames.  The scenes are illustrated via a rough cut of our soon to be released full cast audio adaptation - which languishes in the edit as we post this. The rough cut of Act 2 scenes 2 to 5 to The Life and Death of Jack Straw is performed by Pollie Hall as Jack Straw, Leigh McDonald as Wat Tyler, Hugh Weller-Poley as Tom Miller, Andy Barrett as Hob Carter, Sarah Golding as Nobs, Heydn McCabe as Sir John Newton, Geir Madland as Sir John Morton, Rob Myson as the bargeman, Alan Scott as the men of Southwark and Nemonee Stone as Richard II. With your host Robert Crighton. BE WARNED - If you just want to listen to the play as a play, don't listen to the spoilers episodes. Come back la