Votes for Plays

Most podcasts / theatre companies do some sort of crowdfunding, and we're no different. This full cast audio lark isn't cheap and we're still a few months away from live shows.
Till then we're going to have two ways of donating - one ongoing via patreon, and the other as a little one off.

Just a One Time Thing...

The one off is simple and effective, you can give £3 via ko-fi, if you so choose.  The money from there goes to the development side of things, our explorations of plays at read through's etc. We have a simple, low goal to achieve at present - we want to cover our printing costs for the autumn. Check it out. Help us print things. http://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare

For As Long (or as short) As You Like

The patreon feed is on going (www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare), a donation a month, but you get cool stuff in return.  You can join our patreon here.  And, unlike other podcast, we're not primarily offering access, trips to the studio, meet and greets, merchandise or special editions (we will do this, but it's not the cool thing) - we're offering you...

A VOTE!

You get to shape our repertoire!

Hell, not just a vote - you can flat out bribe us to produce whatever you want.  Taxation with representation.
The system is simple, though there is some flanging round the details to be figured out - the more money you give, the more control you have over what we do.  It starts with shaping the vague areas of work, from genre or time period, to focusing on specific playwrights and plays - to the final and logical end point of co-opting our production base.

The ballots occur every six months or so - so don't worry about missing one, you'll be in place for the next one.

Here's a rough outline of what you get: (NB: don't panic if it's not in your currency, whilst there is a variation in exchange rate for the amount, there are no massive fees or anything silly.)

$1 - gets to take the general survey, however any results will be considered non binding.

$3 - Vote for a Playwright - the first past the post winning gets some kind of project developed based on their work. Number of projects will depend on funds raised.  This playwright will then have their tally dropped to zero for future rounds, though people can vote again later. This can be the same as the winning of the play category, and runners up may also get content produced, depending on funds raised. (Voting guide below.)

$5 - Vote for a Play - the first past the post winner will go into some kind of production, depending on funds raised. Second or third runners up may also do so. These plays will then be removed from the ballot for at least a year. (Voting guide below.)

$10 to $30 - Speeches and Scenes - your pledge gets you a special recording of speeches or scenes from plays of your choice, sometime over the next year, probably sooner. Once that is produced, we will work on your next choice over a similar timetable.

$50 - we will produce a table reading of a play of your choice, again sometime in the next year, again working on another project of your choice once your first choice is complete.

$250 - Full audio production of a play of your choice, recorded over a year.

$1000 - Full stage production of a play of your choice, produced over a year.

We will go back to the tally with an additional ballet whenever the voted for projects are complete, every four to six months or so - new patrons will be able to vote for the first time, patrons from previous ballots will get to vote again.

So, you want to help out, or more importantly boss us around - pledge today and start voting - www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare

A VOTE FOR US, IS A VOTE FOR US!

Don't know who to vote for?

Not in play, we've done him...

Playwrights? There's over a hundred to choose from, including Anon.  The only excluded playwrights from the first ballot are John Heywood and (forever and ever, amen) William Shakespeare.  Playwright's who are coming up anyway are in play - so John Bale can be voted for, we'll just do more on him.
You can be obvious and go for a big hitter like Marlowe or Jonson, or someone obscure like R.B. Up to you. So long as they wrote prior to 1642.
Here's some names - it's not an exhaustive list, there may be errors, typos, omissions, and even some red herrings: Anonymous, Henry Medwall, John Rastell, John Skelton, John Bale, John Redford, L. Wager, John Phillip, W. Wager, Henry Cheke, George Gascoigne, George Peele, Robert Wilson, Thomas Watson, Nathaniel Woods, John Lyly, Robert Greene, Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Hughes, Thomas Lodge, Henry Porter, Anthony Munday, Mary Herbert, William Alabaster, William Warner, Thomas Heywood, Samuel Daniel, Robert Yarington, Samuel Brandon, William Rowley, George Chapman, Ben Jonson, Richard Benard, Henry Chettle, William Haughton, John Marston, Michael Drayton, Fulke Greville, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Tomkis, Richard Vennar, Elizabeth Cary, Samuel Rowley, Francis Verney, William Alexander, John Day, Francis Beaumont, Samuel Daniel, Edward Sharpham, Cyril Tourneur, George Wilkins, Robert Armin, Barnabe Barnes, John Webster, Gervase Markham, Nathan Field, Robert Daborne, Jo Cooke, George Ferebe, Samuel Brooke, John Stephens, Robert Tailor, Phineas Fletcher, William Browne, George Ruggle, Thomas Tomkis, Robert Daborne, John Fletcher, James Shirley, Richard Brome, Jasper Heywood, John Studley, Thomas Nuce, Thomas Newton, Sir Philip Sidney, Philip Massinger, John Ford & Uncle Tom Cobley and all.

Plays? There's literally hundreds of plays to choose from (and there's a ridiculous list below!) - and we're not adverse to some cheating, so poems that are a bit dramatic, translations from the period, stuff that's about theatre of the time, we'll give it a chance (and if we dismiss it, we'll give you another vote for something else, we're nice that way).  Plays we've already done are excluded from the ballot - if you vote for something we've done we will take that as a vote for something similar to that play - in an IF YOU LIKE THAT, YOU'LL LOVE THIS kind of way.

Here's a stupidly inaccurate list of plays - with typos, errors, omissions, and red herrings.

The Cambridge Prologue, Interludium de Clerico et Puella (frag), The Pride of Life, The Castle of Perseverance, Shrewsbury Fragments, Dux Moraud, The Rickinghall Fragment, The Durham Prologue, Reynes – Delight / Epilogue, Wisdom or Mind, Will, and Understanding, Play of the Sacrament, The Northampton Abraham, Mankind, Brome Abraham and Isaac, Robin Hood and the Sheriff/Knight (frag), Norwich Grocers’ Play, The four Mystery 'cycles' - N-Town, York, Chester and Towneley, Occupation and Idleness, Lucidus and Dubius, The Killing of the Children, Mary Magdalene, Fulgens and Lucrece, Nature, Ashmole Fragment, Mundus et Infans, The Summoning of Everyman, The Conversion of St Paul, Youth, Hickscorner, The Four Elements, Magnificence, Christ’s Burial, Christ’s Resurrection, Callisto and Melebea, Godly Queen Hester, Witty and Witless, John John, Gentleness and Nobility, Pardoner and the Friar, Play of Love, The Prodigal Son or Pater, Filius et Uxor (frag), Lucrece (frag), The Four PP, Courage, Kindness, Cleaness (frag), D, G, T (frag), Play of the Weather, Old Christmas or Good Order (frag) Temperance and Humility (frag), Albion Knight (frag), Thersites, God’s Promises, Baptism, Temptation, Three Laws, King Johan, Wit and Science, Love Feigned and Unfeigned (frag), The Four Cardinal Virtues (frag), Resurrection of Our Lord, Impatient Poverty, Somebody and Others (frag), Lusty Juventus, Nice Wanton, Somebody Avarice and Minister, Ralph Roister Doister, Gammer Gurtons Needle, Respublica, Jacob and Esau, Wealth and Health, Jack Juggler, The Life and Repentance of Mary Magdalene, Patient Grissell, The Longer Thou Livest the More Fool Thou Art? The Disobedient Child, Enough is as Good as a Feast, The Pedler’s Prophecy, Tom Tyler and his Wife, Robin Hood and the Friar, Robin Hood and the Potter (frag), Cambises, Gorboduc, Free Will, The Bugbears, Apius and Virginia, King Darius, Damon and Pithias, The Cruel Debtor (frag), Supposes, Gismond of Salerne, Horestes, The Trial of Treasure, The Marriage of Wit and Science, Like Will to Like, Susanna, Misogonus, Clyomon and Clamydes, Juli and Juliun, New Custom, The Conflict of Custom, Glass of Government, Abraham’s Sacrifice, Common Conditions, The Tide Tarrieth No Man, All For Money, Promos and Cassandra, A Marriage Between Wit and Wisdom, The Arraignment of Paris, Three Ladies of London, The Conflict of Conscience, Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune, Maleager, Dido, Fidele and Fortunio, Oedipus, Campaspe, Sappho and Phao, Galatea, The Seven Deadly Sins, The Famous Victories of Henry V, Love’s Metamophosis, Hunting of Cupid, The Troublesome Reign of King John, Alphonsus, The Spanish Tragedy, Tamberlaine I, Dido (again), David and Bathsabe, Mucedorus, The Misfortunes of Arthur, The Wounds of Civil War, Endymion, Tamberlaine II, The Two Merry Women of Abingdon, Three Lords and Three Ladies of London, Taming of a Shrew, Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, Midas, Mother Bombie, The Jew of Malta, John a Kent and John a Cumber, Battle of Alcazar, Fair Em, King Leir, Soliman and Perseda, James IV, George a Green, A Looking Glass for London and England, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Cobblers Prophecy, Tragedy of Antony, A New Northern Jig, Arden of Faversham, Jack Straw, Locrine, True Trag of Richard III, Orlando Furioso, Edward I, A Knack to Know a Knave, Thomas of Woodstock, Ulysses Redux, Selimus, John of Bordeaux, Dr Faustus, Edward II, Massacre at Paris, Summer’s Last Will and Testament, Roxana, The Four Prentices of London, The Woman in the Moon, Cornelia, Thomas Kyd, Cleopatra, John a Kent and John a Cumber, Two Lamentable Tragedies, The Virtuous Octavia, A New Wonder - A Woman Never Vexed, A Match at Midnight, The Birth of Merlin, The Blind Begger of Alexandria, An Humourous Day’s Mirth, The Case is Altered, Every Man In His Humour, The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntingdon, The Death of Robert Earl of Huntingdon, Englishmen for My Money or A Woman Will Have Her Will, The Two Angry Women of Abingdon, Antonio and Mellida, Sir John Oldcastle, Old Fortunatus, The Shoemaker’s Holiday, Every Man Out of His Humour, All Fools, Cynthia’s Revels, Alaham, Mustapha, Lust’s Dominion, The Weakest Goeth to the Wall, Patient Grissel, I Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green, The Bloody Banquet, What You Will, Satriomastix, The Poetaster, Blurt, Master Constable, Sir Thomas Wyatt, The Royal King and the Loyal Subject, Lingua, England’s Joy, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Hoffman, or a Revenger for a Father, Mariam, The Gentleman Usher, The Family of Love, The Dutch Courtesan, When You See Me, You Know Me, Antipoe, The Tragedy of Darius, Sejanus, A Woman Killed With Kindness, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix, The Honest Whore, Westward Ho!, Northward Ho!, Law Tricks, The Wise Woman of Hogsdon, The Malcontent, The Fawn, Croseus, Monsieur D’Olive, Bussy D’Ambois, The Tamer Tamed, Philotas, A Yorkshire Tragedy, The Fair Maid of the West, Part 1, The Widow’s Tears, The Queen’s Arcadia, Eastward Ho!, If You Know Not Me - You Know Nobody, The Whore of Babylon, A Mad, Mad World My Masters, Michaelmas Term, The Isle of Gulls, Volpone, The Wonder of Women or Sophonisba, The Fleir, The Woman Hater, A Trick to Catch the Old One, The Puritan, The Revenger’s Tragedy, Cupid’s Whirligig, The Atheist’s Tragedy, The Miseries of Enforced Marriage, The Alexandraen Tragedy, Julius Caesar, The Two Maids of Moreclacke, The Devil’s Charter, Ram Alley, David, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, The Travels of Three English Brothers, Humour out of Breath, Fortune by Land and Sea, The Lovesick King, Your Five Gallants, The Faithful Shepherdess, Charles Duke of Byron, The Parliament of Bees, A Shoemaker a Gentleman, Appilus and Virginia, The Dumb Knight, The White Devil, A Woman is a Weathercock, Epicoene, May Day, A Christian Turned Turk, The Revenge of Bussy D’Ambois, Philaster, The Coxcomb, The Alchemist, The Roaring Girl, If It Be Not Good the Devil is in It, Match Me in London, The Insatiate Countess, Amends for Ladies, The Golden Age, Catiline his Conspiracy, The Maid’s Tragedy, A King and No King, Greenes Tu Quoque or The City Gallant, The Second Maiden’s Tragedy, No Wit / No Help Like A Woman’s, Cupid’s Revenge, The Captain, The Silver Age, Rollo or the Bloody Brother, The Brazen Age, The Iron Age, The Shepherd’s Song, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, The Honest Man’s Fortune, Adelphe, Scyros, Chabot Admiral of France, Caesar and Pompey, Cynthia’s Revenge, Hog Hath Lost His Pearl, The Dutchess of Malfi, The Witch, Wit at Several Weapons, Bonduca, Valentinian, Wit Without Money, Hymen’s Triumphs, Bartholomew Fair, Sicelides, Melanthe, Ulysses and Circe, Ignoramus, The Hector of Germany, Albumazar, More Dissembers Besides Women, The Nice Valour, A Fair Quarrel, Monsieur Thomas, The Scornful Lady, Thierry and Theodoret, The Nightwalker or the Little Thief, Four Plays in One, Love’s Cure or the Martial Maid, Wit at Several Weapons, The Faithful Friends, The Widow, Hengist, King of Kent, The Devil Is An Ass, The Poor Man’s Comfort, The Old Law, The Virgin Martyr, The Witch of Edmonton, Anything for a Quiet Life, The Island Princess, Women Beware Women, The Changeling, The Wonder of a Kingdom, The Spanish Gypsy, The Suns Darling, A Game at Chess, The New Inn, The Staple of News, Love’s Tricks, The Maid’s Revenge, The Wedding, The Witty Fair One, The Grateful Servant, Pleasant Dialogue and Dramas, The Fair Maid of the West, part 2, The Noble Spanish Soldier, The Traitor, The Duke or the Humorous Courtier, Love’s Cruelty, The Magnetic Lady, A Tale of a Tub, The Changes, Hyde Park, The Ball, The Arcadia, The Bird in a Cage, The Gamester, The Young Admiral, The Example, The Opportunity, The Coronation, The Lady of Pleasure, The Duke’s Mistress, Mortimer (frag), The Royal Master, The Constant Maid, The Doubtful Heir, The Gentlemen of Venice, The Politician, The Imposture, The Country Captain, A Jovial Crew, The Brothers, The Cardinal, The Sisters, The Court Secret, The Devil’s Law Case, A Cure for a Cuckold, The Unnatural Combat, The Duke of Milan, The Bondman, The Renegado, The Parliament of Love, The Roman Actor, The Great Duke of Florence, The Maid of Honour, The Picture, The Emperor of the East, The Fatal Dowry, Debts, The City Madam, The Guardian, A Very Woman or the Prince of Tarent, The Bashful Lover, Tis Pity She’s A Whore, The Lover’s Melancholy, The Broken Heart, Love’s Sacrifice, Perkin Warbeck, The Fancies, Chaste and Noble, The Lady’s Trial, The Sun’s Darling, A Pleasant Conceited Comedy of how a man may choose a good wife from a Bad… and many many more!