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| File:Brice Stratford in Bussy D'Ambois.jpegBrice Stratford in character as Bussy D'Ambois, September 2013 | |
| Born | (1987-02-27)27 February 1987 Lyndhurst, New Forest, England |
| Nationality | English |
| Citizenship | British |
| Occupation(s) | 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 |
| Relatives | Mary Kerridge, John Counsell OBE, Elizabeth Counsell, Jean Miller, Sir John Sawers, Dee Ocleppo |
| Awards | Off West End Award, 2013 |
Brice Stratford is an English theatre director, actor, producer, storyteller and stuntman. He is a rare modern example of the Actor-manager, a descendant of the Wessex branch of the historic Stratford Family, and a member of the "Windsor rep" acting dynasty.
The majority of Stratford's work has been 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 Britain's first full set of awards for classical theatre (the Owle Schreame Awards) in 2014.
Family
Descending from the Wessex branch of the historic Stratfords, Brice also belongs to the "Windsor rep" acting dynasty and "respected theatrical family". He is a cousin to the actress Mary Kerridge, her husband (The actor-director John Counsell OBE), his neice (the actress and painter Jean Miller), their daughter Elizabeth Counsell and her husband David Simeon (both actors). He is also a cousin to both the former head of MI6 Sir John Sawers, and to Dee Ocleppo (the current wife of fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger).
the Owle Schreame theatre company
Stratford founded the Owle Schreame in 2008 in Cambridge, and has since then been responsible for a number of notable projects with them. In 2011 he produced, directed and performed in a production of Measure for Measure on the archeological site of the Elizabethan Rose theatre, which significantly consisted of the first Stage Jig in that space for over 400 years. In 2013 he was similarly responsible for the "Cannibal Valour Repertory Season" of obscure theatre, notably featuring the first recorded performances of two English renaissance plays (Honoria and Mammon by James Shirley , and The Unfortunate Mother by Thomas Nabbes ), alongside the second modern production of George Chapman's Bussy D'Ambois, in which he also played the title role. In 2015 he began "the Vagabond Stage" project of concerted performance research into obscure historical theatre, with the first full production on record of Ralph Roister Doister (written 1552 by Nicholas Udall), the earliest surviving English comedy, in which he also played the title role.
The Owle Schreame Awards
Main article: Owle Schreame AwardsThe 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).
See also
References
- Potter, Louis. "Better (very) late than never", Times Literary Supplement. 29th November, 2013.
- "Old Theatres New Radicalism: An Interview with Brice Stratford". The Oxford Student. "Oxford University".
- "Why I Love Renaissance Theatre". Mouth London.
- "FULL LIST OF THE 2012 WINNERS OF THE OFFIES 2013". "OffWestEnd.com".
- "New Awards Launched to Honour Classical Theatre". The Stage. 30 July 2014.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|work=(help) - "BRICE STRATFORD talks to us about THE OWLE SCHREAME AWARDS of engraved glass skulls..." OffWestEnd.com, (2014)
- Bailey, Jenna. p.244, "Can Any Mother Help Me?" Faber & Faber, 5 Aug 2011
- Counsell, John. "Counsell's Opinion" (1963)
- "Measure for Measure Review" The London Paper, November 14 2011
- Rigg, Katie Five Reasons to Follow the Owle Schreame Theatre Company, The Culture Trip, March 2015
- Walpole, Elinor (11 November 2011). "Review: Measure for Measure". Measure for Measure review. "A Younger Theatre". Retrieved 5 March 2013.
- Reynolds, Sophie (17 June 2013). "Interview with Brice Stratford". Shakespeare's First Acts: Measure for Measure. "Victoria & Albert Museum".
- Kirwan, Peter (28 October 2013). "Bussy D'Ambois: the Owle Schreame @ St Giles". Bussy D'Ambois review. "Nottingham University".
- "The Unfortunate Mother". The Unfortunate Mother Listing. "Timeout London". 23 September 2013.
- Lawrence, Sandra (23 September 2013). "Bussy D'Ambois: Jacobean Tragedy in St Giles Church". Bussy D'Ambois review. "The Londonist".
- Lawrence, Sandra. "Around Town", British Heritage. March, 2014.
- Matthew Partridge, Review: Ralph Roister Doister **** Remotegoat, 25th February, 2015.
- Hemley, Matthew. "New Awards Launched to Honour Classical Theatre". The Stage. 30 July 2014.
- Dickensen, Elinor. "New Awards for Ancient Theatre", Cambridge News. 11th July, 2014.