Our next staged reading will take place on 26 April. We will be performing Cola's Fury by Henry Burkhead and Stephen Kelly will be directing.
Please note that because of this, regular tavern meetings have been pushed back by one week. The revised schedule of meetings can be found below.
Greg Walker at UCD English Graduate Society Seminar
On March 22nd, Greg Walker will be giving a talk in UCD entitled 'The Spectatorial Turn: Watching Drama from the York Cycle to Shakespeare'.
It will start at 4pm in the conference room on the second floor of the UCD Humanities Institute.
It will start at 4pm in the conference room on the second floor of the UCD Humanities Institute.
The Devil's Law Case
Our next 'Read Not Dead' staged reading will be John Webster's The Devil's Law Case, directed by Anne Sappington. It will take place on 25 February at 7 pm in the GSU Common Room, House 7, Trinity College Dublin.
Early Modern Talk in UCD on 1 December
At 4pm on Wednesday 1st December, in J208 (Newman building), Dr Pat Palmer (King's College) will be speaking on "Severed Heads, Grafted Tongues: Translating epic into violence in early modern Ireland".
Schedule of Meetings 2010/11
19 Oct. Playing Spaces and Theatre Architecture (Host: Derek Dunne)
2 Nov. Death and the Afterlife (Host: Andrew Power)
16 Nov. Animals (Host: Darragh Greene)
30 Nov. Proverbs, Emblems, and Homespun Wisdom
13 Dec. Christmas Pageant: The Atheist's Tragedy, directed by Rory Loughnane
-------Christmas Break--------
18 Jan. The Bedroom, and Other Domestic Interiors (Host: Emily O'Brien)
1 Feb. Repertory and Casting (Host: Andrew Power)
15 Feb. Bedlam: Insanity, Hysteria, and Mental Illness (Valentine’s Day Special—Host: Kate Roddy)
1 Mar. Genius and Inspiration (Host: Ane Sappington)
15 Mar. The Printed Image: Woodcuts and Engravings (Host: Kate Harvey)
29 Mar. Fifteen Minutes of Fame: Short-Lived Trends and One-Hit Wonders (Host: Edel Semple)
12 Apr. Disease, Surgery, and Remedies (Host: Edel Semple)
26 Apr. Play Reading: Cola's Fury, directed by Stephen Kelly
3 May Private Communication and Conspiracy
17 May Music and Ballads
AGM and Taverne Inquisition
5th October: Tavern Inquisition and AGM, 8pm, The Library Bar of the Central Hotel
Please bring suggestions for topics for the coming year and a round of questions for the quiz.
Feast
The 2009-2010 session of the society was concluded with a feast. Using recipes from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, participants prepared a delicious spread of medieval and early modern dishes. A lot of pastry was eaten.
After supping on pottage, the revellers devoured spiced mincemeat pies, spinach tarts, salmon (encased in salmon-shaped pastry) and a salad of herbs, before the table was cleared for apple and berry tart, rasten, and syllabub.
Pastry Salmon
Rasten
A civilised game of chess (with marzipan figures on a simnel-cake chessboard) descended into carnage as a queen was seized and promptly eaten. A similar fate awaited her companions.
Simnel cake with marzipan chess pieces
Several short dramatic excerpts were then performed, bringing to a close the year's series of staged readings. Scenes with a culinary emphasis were favoured, including Edel Semple's contribution of Act 2, scene 1 of Middleton's tragicomedy No wit/Help like a Woman's (c.1611). In this scene, the widow Lady Goldenfleece is treated to a banquet by her pompous suitor, Weatherwise. Edible astrological signs, probably made from marzipan and sugar, form the centrepiece of this feast and provide much material for bawdy humour.
After supping on pottage, the revellers devoured spiced mincemeat pies, spinach tarts, salmon (encased in salmon-shaped pastry) and a salad of herbs, before the table was cleared for apple and berry tart, rasten, and syllabub.
Pastry Salmon
Rasten
Simnel cake with marzipan chess pieces
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