Brice Stratford

Brice Stratford
Nationality British
Occupation Stage actor, Shakespearean director and actor-manager
Years active 2006–present
Organization the Owle Schreame
Known for Bussy D'Ambois, The Owle Schreame Awards
Notable work Honoria and Mammon, The Unfortunate Mother, Ralph Roister Doister
Awards Off West End Award, 2013

Brice Stratford is an English director and actor-manager.

He has worked primarily in classical and Shakespearean theatre, particularly with the Owle Schreame theatre company, which he founded in 2008.[1][2] He received an Off-West End award in 2013,[3] and established the Owle Schreame Awards in 2014.[4][5]

The Owle Schreame theatre company

Stratford founded the Owle Schreame in 2008 in Cambridge. In 2011 he produced, directed and performed in Measure for Measure on the site of the former Rose Theatre.[6][7][8] In 2013 the company's "Cannibal Valour" programme at St Giles-in-the-Fields in Camden consisted of The Unfortunate Mother by Thomas Nabbes (1640) and two other renaissance plays,[9] Honoria and Mammon by James Shirley (1659) and Bussy D'Ambois by George Chapman, in which Stratford played the lead.[10] In 2015 the company gave Ralph Roister Doister, written in 1553 by Nicholas Udall and thought to be the earliest surviving English comedy, at the Bread & Roses pub in Clapham; Stratford played the title role.[11]

The Owle Schreame Awards

Main article: Owle Schreame Awards

Stratford established the Owle Schreame Awards in 2014 to commemorate the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth; the awards are designed to honour innovation in historical theatre. They claim status as the only full awards of this type celebrating classical theatre in performance (as opposed to fringe or West-End theatre), and are the most recently established of the three British awards related to the sphere of classical theatre – alongside the Ian Charleson Awards (1990) and the Sam Wanamaker Prize (1994).[12]

References

  1. ↑ "Old Theatres New Radicalism: An Interview with Brice Stratford". The Oxford Student. Oxford University Student Union.
  2. ↑ "Why I Love Renaissance Theatre". Mouth London.
  3. ↑ "Full List of the 2012 Winners of the Offies 2013". OffWestEnd.com.
  4. ↑ "New Awards Launched to Honour Classical Theatre". The Stage. 30 July 2014.
  5. ↑ "Brice Stratford talks to us about the Owle Schreame Awards of engraved glass skulls..." OffWestEnd.com, (2014)
  6. ↑ Rigg, Katie Five Reasons to Follow the Owle Schreame Theatre Company, The Culture Trip, March 2015
  7. ↑ Walpole, Elinor (11 November 2011). "Review: Measure for Measure". A Younger Theatre. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  8. ↑ Reynolds, Sophie (17 June 2013). "Shakespeare's First Acts: Measure for Measure". TheatreVoice. Archived 28 December 2013.
  9. ↑ "The Unfortunate Mother". TimeOut. 23 September 2013.
  10. ↑ Lawrence, Sandra (23 September 2013). "Bussy D'Ambois: Jacobean Tragedy in St Giles Church". The Londonist.
  11. ↑ Matthew Partridge, Review of Ralph Roister Doister Remotegoat, 25 February 2015.
  12. ↑ Hemley, Matthew. "New Awards Launched to Honour Classical Theatre". The Stage. 30 July 2014.