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The Bardcast: “It’s Shakespeare, You Dick!”

A cheeky, irreverent yet informative deep-dive into all things Shakespeare, hosted by two longtime Shakespeare performers, directors, and teachers.

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Framing Shakespeare Apr 07, 2023

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So... what's the deal with those prologues and epilogues in Shakespeare plays? And who is the "Chorus," exactly??
In this episode we discuss all the things that are used in the Shakespeare canon as a framing device.
You know, two households both alike and all that...
To send us an email - please do, we truly want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com
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Episode Sources:
Years and years of experience with Shakespeare from two - scratch that, SIX!!! - rather opinionated theatre professionals, you dicks!!!! And cunts. (Owen insisted we add this.)
Many, many, many books.
And the inter webs :)

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Expert Shakespeare: Tony Hulme from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust! Mar 24, 2023

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As if our trip to the UK wasn't incredible enough, we met this AMAZING man in Stratford Upon Avon who is a docent for The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, who oversees the Shakespeare Birthplace, Holy Trinity Church, Shakespeare's Schoolhouse, The New Place... EVERYTHING that has ANYTHING to do with Shakespeare in Stratford Upon Avon!!!!!!
Join us as we talk to this incredible fount of Shakespeare information, Tony Hulme. We were blown away!!!
To send us an email - please do, we truly want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com
To support us (by giving us money - we're starving artists, dammit!!) - per episode if you like! -
On Patreon, go here:
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To visit our website, go here:
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To donate to an awesome charity, go here:
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Episode Sources:
Years and years of experience with Shakespeare from two rather opinionated theatre professionals, you dicks!!!!
And history, you rapscallion bastards!!!

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RSC/Lyric Hammersmith Shakespeare! The Tempest and Othello, Respectively! Mar 17, 2023

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We complete our UK Shakespeare binge with The Tempest at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford Upon Avon and Othello by the sizzling Frantic Assembly at the Lyric Hammersmith back in London
What a whirlwind tour!!!
To send us an email - please do, we truly want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com
To support us (by giving us money - we're starving artists, dammit!!) - per episode if you like! -
On Patreon, go here:
https://www.patreon.com/user?u=35662364&fan_landing=true
Or on Paypal:
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To visit our website, go here:
https://www.thebardcastyoudick.com
To donate to an awesome charity, go here:
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Episode Sources:
Years and years of experience with Shakespeare from two rather opinionated theatre professionals, you dicks!!!!
And history, you rapscallion bastards!!!

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Southwark Playhouse Shakespeare - Hamlet Edition! Mar 10, 2023

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To be or not to be..... 90 minutes?!?
What do you get when you cut all of the adults out of Hamlet??
Listen to the episode and find out as we Shakespeare our way through London!!!
To send us an email - please do, we truly want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com
To support us (by giving us money - we're starving artists, dammit!!) - per episode if you like! -
On Patreon, go here:
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To visit our website, go here:
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To donate to an awesome charity, go here:
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Episode Sources:
Years and years of experience with Shakespeare from two rather opinionated theatre professionals, you dicks!!!!
And history, you rapscallion bastards!!!

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Sam Wanamaker Playhouse Shakespeare!! Part 2 - Titus Andronicus Mar 02, 2023

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Continuing on our UK quest for all things Shakespeare, we returned to the indoor theatre at The Globe for Titus Andronicus.
Now we understand why some mothers eat their young.
Hide all your candles!!
To send us an email - please do, we truly want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com
To support us (by giving us money - we're starving artists, dammit!!) - per episode if you like! -
On Patreon, go here:
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To visit our website, go here:
https://www.thebardcastyoudick.com
To donate to an awesome charity, go here:
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Episode Sources:
Years and years of experience with Shakespeare from two rather opinionated theatre professionals, you dicks!!!!
And history, you rapscallion bastards!!!

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Sam Wanamaker Playhouse Shakespeare!! Part 1: Henry V Feb 24, 2023

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Hello you dicks and dickesses!!!
We continue to take you with us on our journey through Merrie Olde England with our review of Henry V at the Sam Wanamaker, the indoor theatre at the Globe in London.
We wish we were back in London (sob!), but listen with us and maybe we can all meet there in our dreams!!! Cuppa, anyone?? Or a pint?? We're so in!!!
To send us an email - please do, we truly want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com
To support us (by giving us money - we're starving artists, dammit!!) - per episode if you like! -
On Patreon, go here:
https://www.patreon.com/user?u=35662364&fan_landing=true
Or on Paypal:
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=8KTK7CATJSRYJ
To visit our website, go here:
https://www.thebardcastyoudick.com
To donate to an awesome charity, go here:
https://actorsfund.org/help-our-entertainment-communiity-covid-19-emergency-relief
Like us? Don't have any extra moolah? We get it! Still love us and want to support us??
Then leave us a five-star rating AND a review wherever you get your podcasts!!

Episode Sources:
Years and years of experience with Shakespeare from two rather opinionated theatre professionals, you dicks!!!!
And history, you rapscallion bastards!!!

Support the show

Touchstone Tom Mison - As We Like It Shakespeare!! Feb 17, 2023

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As if our UK trip wasn't AMAZING enough... in this episode not only do we review the stunning production of As You Like It that we saw at SohoPlace, but we were thrilled to be able to do an interview with TOM MISON, who played a simply outstanding Touchstone in that production!!
We bet that you know him from other things besides Shakespeare... check out his IMDB page...https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2070427/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Sometimes, listeners, life is pretty fucking great!!!
To send us an email - please do, we truly want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com
To support us (by giving us money - we're starving artists, dammit!!) - per episode if you like! -
On Patreon, go here:
https://www.patreon.com/user?u=35662364&fan_landing=true
Or on Paypal:
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=8KTK7CATJSRYJ
To visit our website, go here:
https://www.thebardcastyoudick.com
To donate to an awesome charity, go here:
https://actorsfund.org/help-our-entertainment-communiity-covid-19-emergency-relief
Like us? Don't have any extra moolah? We get it! Still love us and want to support us??
Then leave us a five-star rating AND a review wherever you get your podcasts!!

Episode Sources:
Years and years of experience with Shakespeare from two rather opinionated theatre professionals, you dicks!!!! (And Don and Leda.)
AND... a spectacular guest!!!!!

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Birthplace Shakespeare! Feb 03, 2023

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WE ARE IN THE CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE!!!!
For us anyway!!!
Did you know that Shakespeare grew up with gallons and gallons of urine and manure in his back yard??
Or that his dad ran a brisk business out of the front window while little Will was sleeping upstairs (before he went bankrupt, that is)??
Or that he and his knocked up wife had to live with his parents after they got hitched - shotgun wedding style - because young Billy Boy had flies and nothing else coming out of his wallet??
Neither did we! (Ok, we knew some of that, but this IS a Shakespeare podcast, you dicks!!)
It’s all true though!! Have a listen!! We’re off to grab a pint!!
To send us an email - please do, we truly want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com
To support us (by giving us money - we're starving artists, dammit!!) - per episode if you like! -
On Patreon, go here:
https://www.patreon.com/user?u=35662364&fan_landing=true
Or on Paypal:
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=8KTK7CATJSRYJ
To visit our website, go here:
https://www.thebardcastyoudick.com
To donate to an awesome charity, go here:
https://actorsfund.org/help-our-entertainment-communiity-covid-19-emergency-relief
Like us? Don't have any extra moolah? We get it! Still love us and want to support us??
Then leave us a five-star rating AND a review wherever you get your podcasts!!

Episode Sources:
Years and years of experience with Shakespeare from two rather opinionated theatre professionals, you dicks!!!! And Don and Leda.
History, you rapscallion bastards!!!

Support the show

London and Stratford-upon-Avon Shakespeare - A Preview! Jan 20, 2023

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OHMYGODWERESOEXCITED!!!!!
The next time you hear us, we will be recording from THE UK!!!
IN THE SAME ROOM!!!
Yes, listeners, The Bardcast is heading to London and Stratford-upon-Avon for ALL THINGS SHAKESPEARE (what, what?!??)!!!
In this episode, we give you a preview of our itinerary - what Shakespeare plays we’re seeing, where we’re going, what we’re doing etc. - all of which you’ll hear about in episodes to come!!!
Join us for a pint, you bloody dicks and dickesses!!
To send us an email - please do, we truly want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com
To support us (by giving us money - we're starving artists, dammit!!) - per episode if you like! -
On Patreon, go here:
https://www.patreon.com/user?u=35662364&fan_landing=true
Or on Paypal:
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=8KTK7CATJSRYJ
To visit our website, go here:
https://www.thebardcastyoudick.com
To donate to an awesome charity, go here:
https://actorsfund.org/help-our-entertainment-communiity-covid-19-emergency-relief
Like us? Don't have any extra moolah? We get it! Still love us and want to support us??
Then leave us a five-star rating AND a review wherever you get your podcasts!!

Episode Sources:
Great Shakespearean Deaths Card Game by Chris Riddell and Spymonkey - Chronicle Books
Years and years of experience with Shakespeare from two - scratch that, SIX!!! - rather opinionated theatre professionals, you dicks!!!! And cunts. (Owen insisted we add this.)
Many, many, many books.
And the inter webs :)

Support the show

Another Card Game Shakespeare - Great Shakespearean Deaths!! Jan 06, 2023

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Happy 2023, dicks and dickesses!!
We decided to start off the new year by playing a game that we were both given for Christmas, Great Shakespearean Deaths, a card game by Chris Riddell & Spymonkey.
Let the games begin!!! Also, make sure you join us on January 20, when we will be doing a "The Bardcast Goes to London and Stratford" preview episode!!!!
Announcements!!! We are now a federal non-profit 501C3, so any money you donate towards the podcast is a 100% tax deduction - doesn't that absolutely rock for both you and us?!?!?!? Get on it, dear listeners!!! Much obliged :)
Also... we are going to the UK in late January 2023!!! Seeing a bunch of Shakespeare plays in London and Stratford Upon Avon, and visiting major Shakespeare attractions and maybe even (hopefully!) a private tour of the Globe!! Donations towards that trip are gleefully accepted, and we will send you swag in return!!!
To send us an email - please do, we truly want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com
To support us (by giving us money - we're starving artists, dammit!!) - per episode if you like! -
On Patreon, go here:
https://www.patreon.com/user?u=35662364&fan_landing=true
Or on Paypal:
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=8KTK7CATJSRYJ
To visit our website, go here:
https://www.thebardcastyoudick.com
To donate to an awesome charity, go here:
https://actorsfund.org/help-our-entertainment-communiity-covid-19-emergency-relief
Like us? Don't have any extra moolah? We get it! Still love us and want to support us??
Then leave us a five-star rating AND a review wherever you get your podcasts!!

Episode Sources:
Great Shakespearean Deaths Card Game by Chris Riddell and Spymonkey - Chronicle Books
Years and years of experience with Shakespeare from two - scratch that, SIX!!! - rather opinionated theatre professionals, you dicks!!!! And cunts. (Owen insisted we add this.)
Many, many, many books.
And the inter webs :)

Support the show

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