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Brice Stratford is an English Theatre 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.

Historical Theatre

Stratford founded the Owle Schreame theatre company in 2008.

In 2011 he held the first stage jig on the site of the Elizabethan Rose Theatre for over 400 years, as part of a production of Measure for Measure that he produced, directed and performed in.

In 2012 he appeared in the London revival of Giraudoux's Ondine as the Lord Chamberlain, for which he was awarded an Off West End Award the following year.

In 2013 he was responsible for the first recorded performances ("world premieres") of two English renaissance plays (Honoria and Mammon by James Shirley , and The Unfortunate Mother by Thomas Nabbes ), alongside a production of Bussy D'Ambois (by George Chapman) in which he played the lead. The "Cannibal Valour Repertory Season" was held at the burial site of the three playwrights, St Giles-in-the-Fields in the West End of London.

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 by Stratford 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).

Family

Brice Stratford is a member of both the the historic Stratford family, and the "Windsor rep" acting dynasty. He is a cousin to the actress Mary Kerridge, her daughter Elizabeth Counsell, the former head of MI6 Sir John Sawers, the model and designer Dee Ocleppo, and the actor Colin Jeavons.

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. Waygood, James. Ondine, Exeunt Magazine (2012)
12. Potter, Louis. "Better (very) late than never", Times Literary Supplement. 29th November, 2013.
13. Lawrence, Sandra (23 September 2013). "Bussy D'Ambois: Jacobean Tragedy in St Giles Church". Bussy D'Ambois review. "The Londonist".
14. Lawrence, Sandra. "Around Town", British Heritage. March 2014.
15. Matthew Partridge, Review of Ralph Roister Doister Remotegoat, 25 February 2015.
16. Hemley, Matthew. "New Awards Launched to Honour Classical Theatre". The Stage. 30 July 2014.
17. 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
• Windsor rep acting dynasty