Beyond Shakespeare

Spoilers: The Life and Death of Jack Straw (Act 1, Scene 4) Jack Straw is not a long play, but that won't stop us going into ridiculous amounts of detail about it. Act 1, scene 4 sees the crown get it together with this whole rebel alliance thing. Enter the royal family to the various lords we've already met. Something, at last, is going to be done. The scene is 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 1 scene 4 to The Life and Death of Jack Straw is performed by Gillian Horgan as the Queen Mother, Heydn McCabe as The Treasurer, Pamela Flanagan as the Usher, Adam Thurkettle as the Bishop, Geir Madland as Sir John Morton, and Nemonee Stone as Richard II.  Introduced by 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 later, or don't listen. However, if you find early drama hard to follow, then you will get a goo