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Brice Stratford is an English director and actor-manager. He is a descendant of the Wessex branch of the historic Stratford Family, and a member of the "Windsor rep" acting dynasty.

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

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. 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, Honoria and Mammon by James Shirley (1659) and Bussy D'Ambois by George Chapman, in which Stratford played the lead. 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.

The Owle Schreame Awards

The Owle Schreame Awards were established in 2014 to commemorate the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, and 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).

References

1. ^ "The Windsors Revisited" Genealogists' Magazine, 2012
2. MacElvoy, Michael. "Editorial", The Marlowe Society Newsletter 42 (Spring 2014).
3. "Old Theatres New Radicalism: An Interview with Brice Stratford". The Oxford Student. "Oxford University".
4. "Why I Love Renaissance Theatre". Mouth London.
5. "Full List of the 2012 Winners of the Offies 2013". "OffWestEnd.com".
6. "New Awards Launched to Honour Classical Theatre". The Stage. 30 July 2014. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |work= (help)
7. "Brice Stratford talks to us about the Owle Schreame Awards of engraved glass skulls..." OffWestEnd.com, (2014)
8. Rigg, Katie Five Reasons to Follow the Owle Schreame Theatre Company, The Culture Trip, March 2015
9. Walpole, Elinor (11 November 2011). "Review: Measure for Measure". Measure for Measure review. "A Younger Theatre". Retrieved 5 March 2013.
10. Reynolds, Sophie (17 June 2013). "Interview with Brice Stratford". Shakespeare's First Acts: Measure for Measure. "Victoria & Albert Museum".
11. "The Unfortunate Mother". The Unfortunate Mother Listing. "Timeout London". 23 September 2013.
12. Lawrence, Sandra (23 September 2013). "Bussy D'Ambois: Jacobean Tragedy in St Giles Church". Bussy D'Ambois review. "The Londonist".
13. Lawrence, Sandra. "Around Town", British Heritage. March 2014.
14. Matthew Partridge, Review of Ralph Roister Doister Remotegoat, 25 February 2015.
15. Hemley, Matthew. "New Awards Launched to Honour Classical Theatre". The Stage. 30 July 2014.
16. Dickensen, Elinor. "New Awards for Ancient Theatre", Cambridge News. 11 July 2014.

External links

• the Owle Schreame theatre company website

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• British theatre directors
• English theatre directors
• Actor-managers
• Male Shakespearean actors
• Artistic directors
• Living people
• Stratford family