Come and meet Durham’s very own dragon and dance with a ‘bone queen,’ at this fascinating display of the North-East’s theatre heritage, featuring REED North East. This free event, to which all are welcome, takes place in the Department of Music, Palace Green, Durham on 3rd June, from 19.00 to 20.30. The Dragon and the Bone Queen will include a […]
Among the papers of the Strickland-Constable family of Wassand Hall in the East Riding of Yorkshire, now lodged at the East Riding Archives (ERA) office in Beverley, is a modest little booklet, of paper bound in a piece of recycled parchment, which is listed in the ERA catalogue as ‘Sir John Nevile’s memoranda book. 1595’.[1] […]
The annual conference of Durham’s Medieval and Early Modern Student Association is coming up on 11th-12th July, on the theme of Imitation and Innovation: Uses of the Past in the Medieval and Early Modern World. Our followers might be interested in this call for papers, deadline 14th April. The use of the past is a […]
A message from REED Head Office: “The Records of Early English Drama (REED) project is delighted to announce the launch of REED Online (ereed.library.utoronto.ca), its new open-access website. The site features REED’s first digital edition of dramatic records for the county of Staffordshire, encoded in TEI. Easily searched with a number of useful filters, online […]
The Medieval English Theatre Society meeting is coming up. Here are some details from their website: “Saturday 25 March 2017 Cultures of Performance: a Celebration of the Work of Philip Butterworth University of Glasgow This year the Medieval English Theatre Meeting on Cultures of Performance will be hosted by Pamela M. King and Eila Williamson […]
Check out the highlights video from the Theatrum Mundi early drama festival, 7-12 July 2016:
The 2016 SITM/REED North-East Colloquium and ‘Theatrum Mundi’ play festival took place in Durham last week and proved a great success. We at REED N-E would like to thank all participants, performers, producers, directors and well-wishers for a wonderful experience with some truly memorable early drama on display. Here are some images of some of […]
The fifteenth triennial SITM Colloquium, co-sponsored by Records of Early English Drama North-East, is almost upon us! The latest information on travel, registration and the programme may be found here: https://reed-ne.webspace.durham.ac.uk/?page_id=650
Rehearsals are gearing up for tomorrow night’s opening of “the oldest play in Britain”: Lindisfarne’s Anglo-Saxon Harrowing of Hell! Come join us in St. Oswald’s for the world premier, and an exciting double-bill with Prior Lawrence of Durham’s medieval play of the Peregrini (‘Pilgrims’). Here are a few early (rather grainy) photos:
Find out more about our friends at the recently-launched ‘Singing the Past to Life’ Project. This worthy new AHRC-funded collaboration between academics in Durham’s Department of History, IMEMS and Oxford’s Cantata Dramatica aims to share academic research on Durham’s medieval past with local Durham residents through music and drama. Find out more here: https://singingthepastblog.wordpress.com/