After a sellout performance in September, we’re proud to return with another free Souls of the North show, featuring medieval and Renaissance music, dancing and drama with a deathly twist. Come to the Great Hall, Durham Castle on 10th November at 20.00 – if you dare! Souls of the North presents now-neglected traditions from the […]
Listen in to echoes from the past, when All Hallows’ Eve struck fear in people’s souls! Join the Records of Early English Drama North East team for Lost Voices, a unique event taking place on 25th November at 15.30-16.30 in Durham’s Palace Green Concert Hall. ‘Lost voices’ retrieves and presents voices, melodies, and popular traditions […]
This month’s Flower comes from the Northumberland border town of Berwick-upon-Tweed. The borough account book records some youthful shenanigans in the streets of Berwick in the early 1540s. An undated order from 5 Edward VI (1541/42) records that children in the town are ‘suffered’ (allowed) ‘to run abroad and make cryings’ and cause mayhem in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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:
Theatrum Mundi An International Festival of Medieval and Renaissance Drama Discover the legends of the North-East. Take part as actor, singer or dancer. Help us make a dragon. We are now casting for The Sacred and the Profane, a massive show which will be staged on Palace Green on 10 July 2016. It will feature […]