The MarText Readings

The Martext Events, organised by Dr Ildi Solti and Jo Hill of the Marlowe Society, are a reading of a play for about an hour followed by a discussion of how it can be staged. A play by Christopher Marlowe will be chosen for November.

Everyone is welcome – absolutely no acting experience required but it is helpful if you can bring a copy of the play. Most of us are using the Penguin Classics Marlowe Complete Plays. There is no charge but a donation of £3 to The Rose is suggested.


The MarText Readings

The Martext Events, organised by Dr Ildi Solti and Jo Hill of the Marlowe Society, are a reading of a play for about an hour followed by a discussion of how it can be staged. We will be reading from The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe.

Everyone is welcome – absolutely no acting experience required but it is helpful if you can bring a copy of the play. Most of us are using the Penguin Classics Marlowe Complete Plays. There is no charge but a donation of £3 to The Rose is suggested.


Alleyn Walk – 19th April

GUIDED WALK FOCUSING ON EDWARD ALLEYN, PRINCIPAL ACTOR AT THE ROSE PLAYHOUSE BANKSIDE. MARLOWE’S TAMBURLAINE WAS WRITTEN FOR HIM AND HE WAS THE FIRST DR. FAUSTUS.

Come on a gentle, 2-hour walk through the Barbican and Clerkenwell and on the way hear about Alleyn’s life, his theatres, Shakespeare, Elizabethan theatre practice and various other interesting facts with a knowledgeable guide from the Rose Playhouse.

The walk starts at 2.30 pm from Moorgate Underground [exit 1/2 on the West Side, outside Caffe Nero] and ends at Farringdon. Please arrive in good time so that the walk can start promptly.
Cost £5. Tickets can be booked here [15p booking charge].

Walks will not go ahead if the weather is really bad. In that event, the booking can be transferred to another date or a refund given.


Alleyn Walk – 12th April

GUIDED WALK FOCUSING ON EDWARD ALLEYN, PRINCIPAL ACTOR AT THE ROSE PLAYHOUSE BANKSIDE. MARLOWE’S TAMBURLAINE WAS WRITTEN FOR HIM AND HE WAS THE FIRST DR. FAUSTUS.

Come on a gentle, 2-hour walk through the Barbican and Clerkenwell and on the way hear about Alleyn’s life, his theatres, Shakespeare, Elizabethan theatre practice and various other interesting facts with a knowledgeable guide from the Rose Playhouse.

The walk starts at 2.30 pm from Moorgate Underground [exit 1/2 on the West Side, outside Caffe Nero] and ends at Farringdon. Please arrive in good time so that the walk can start promptly.
Cost £5. Tickets can be booked here [15p booking charge].

Walks will not go ahead if the weather is really bad. In that event, the booking can be transferred to another date or a refund given.


The 2018 Annual Marlowe Lecture

This year’s Marlowe Lecture will take place at the Rose Theatre, Kingston-upon-Thames at 5 pm, on Saturday, the 24th November.

We are very pleased to say that the lecture will be given by Professor Frank Whately and will be about Marlowe and Edward Alleyn.  Those who heard Frank at the Marlowe-Shakespeare Conference in Kingston last November will testify to his brilliance as a communicator. Moreover, the approaching publication of his book on Alleyn makes the event all the more enticing.

Brief abstract:
A symbiotic relationship existed between Marlowe’s dramatic imagination and Alleyn’s performative power which was manifested on the stage of the Rose Theatre. What was the nature of that relationship? What did each contribute to enhancing the reputation of the other, both in the turbulent last years of the sixteenth century and since?

Price: Free

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Martext play reading workshops

The Knight of the Burning Pestle

Martext workshop online every other Monday @ 6.00pm (UK). We are finishing Francis Beaumont’s “The Knight of the Burning Pestle” on 5th April.  Bring ur own drink! 
 
 
Dates for the next Martext workshops when we’ll be reading Twelfth Night:
 
19th April
3rd, 17th May
 

For Zoom link email: research@marlowe-society.org