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THE SCHOOL OF NIGHT: The 20th Anniversary Tour
Friday 11th July at 20.00
THEATRE
Suppose you could summon the ancient muses?
Suppose you could extemporise everything from Pinter to Shakespeare?
Suppose making stuff up was just more entertaining than writing it down?
In the 16th century, the School Of Night was an arcane, underground sect of artists, thinkers, writers, scientists and spies, who some scholars believe wrote Shakespeare’s plays. Revived by maverick theatre genius Ken Campbell for the 21st century, the heretical troupe has risen to the challenge of Hard Bardics: improvising lost masterpieces, summoning the Muses and channeling the great poets and playwrights of the past.
Meetings of the School of Night are unlike any other theatrical event you are likely to experience; the Rhapsodes explore the minds of poets, novelists and playwrights both ancient and modern, creating new works on the fly.
“Trains of whimsical thought are ignited like trails of gunpowder” Heathcote Williams
The School is interested in the spirit of the esoteric, the hidden, the obscure, so they might embody the spirit of the Muses, ancient or modern; they might sing a song inspired by a member of the gathering; or it might be that an entire act or more of a lost Shakespeare play be performed.
Every night is different, everything is created on the spur of the moment according to ideas and suggestions proffered by the audience.
In their twenty years on the road, The School has appeared at Shakespeare’s Globe, The National Theatre, The Royal Court, The Old Vic Tunnels, Soho Theatre, The British Library, Keats House Library and The Beadleian Library (the late Jeremy Beadle’s private library of occult and esoteric literature); also, at three Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, Latitude Festival, The Bristol Jam, Lichfield Festival and the legendary Hay-on-Wye Literature Festival where they made one of their two appearances on BBC Radio’s poetry programme The Verb. They appear regularly at The Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon, and The Willow Globe in Wales, and have recently played at The Shakespeare North Playhouse, Birmingham Central Library, for Slung Low in Leeds, the Georgian Theatre Royal in Yorkshire and headlining the Liverpool Improv Festival at the Unity Theatre.
Further afield, they have performed at Elsinore Castle in Denmark for The International Shakespeare Conference, at The Impulse Festival in Toronto and the Edmonton Improvaganza in Canada; for The English Theatre of Hamburg, the Wiesbaden Summer Improv Festival and several other festivals in Germany, as well as dates in Oslo, Amsterdam, Qatar, Kuala Lumpur, Bergamo and Sherman, Texas.
THE SCHOOL OF NIGHT: The 20th Anniversary Tour
Friday 11th July at 20.00
THEATRE
Suppose you could summon the ancient muses?
Suppose you could extemporise everything from Pinter to Shakespeare?
Suppose making stuff up was just more entertaining than writing it down?
In the 16th century, the School Of Night was an arcane, underground sect of artists, thinkers, writers, scientists and spies, who some scholars believe wrote Shakespeare’s plays. Revived by maverick theatre genius Ken Campbell for the 21st century, the heretical troupe has risen to the challenge of Hard Bardics: improvising lost masterpieces, summoning the Muses and channeling the great poets and playwrights of the past.
Meetings of the School of Night are unlike any other theatrical event you are likely to experience; the Rhapsodes explore the minds of poets, novelists and playwrights both ancient and modern, creating new works on the fly.
“Trains of whimsical thought are ignited like trails of gunpowder” Heathcote Williams
The School is interested in the spirit of the esoteric, the hidden, the obscure, so they might embody the spirit of the Muses, ancient or modern; they might sing a song inspired by a member of the gathering; or it might be that an entire act or more of a lost Shakespeare play be performed.
Every night is different, everything is created on the spur of the moment according to ideas and suggestions proffered by the audience.
In their twenty years on the road, The School has appeared at Shakespeare’s Globe, The National Theatre, The Royal Court, The Old Vic Tunnels, Soho Theatre, The British Library, Keats House Library and The Beadleian Library (the late Jeremy Beadle’s private library of occult and esoteric literature); also, at three Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, Latitude Festival, The Bristol Jam, Lichfield Festival and the legendary Hay-on-Wye Literature Festival where they made one of their two appearances on BBC Radio’s poetry programme The Verb. They appear regularly at The Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon, and The Willow Globe in Wales, and have recently played at The Shakespeare North Playhouse, Birmingham Central Library, for Slung Low in Leeds, the Georgian Theatre Royal in Yorkshire and headlining the Liverpool Improv Festival at the Unity Theatre.
Further afield, they have performed at Elsinore Castle in Denmark for The International Shakespeare Conference, at The Impulse Festival in Toronto and the Edmonton Improvaganza in Canada; for The English Theatre of Hamburg, the Wiesbaden Summer Improv Festival and several other festivals in Germany, as well as dates in Oslo, Amsterdam, Qatar, Kuala Lumpur, Bergamo and Sherman, Texas.