Beyond Shakespeare

Spoilers: The Life and Death of Jack Straw (Act 1, Scene 2) Jack Straw is not a long play, but that won't stop us going into ridiculous amounts of detail about it. Act 1, scene 2 sees the first reaction to the revolt, and the introduction to some... short lived characters. 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 2 to The Life and Death of Jack Straw is performed by Heydn McCabe as The Treasurer, Adam Thurkettle as the Archbishop and Simon Nader as the Secretary. The Messenger was played by Alan Scott. 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 good grounding in the action here - especially as we may make changes or cuts for our final version! The plain text version is rough in hew