On this weeks episode we are joined by Ava Madon, current cast member of 'Venus & Adonis' with Sport for Jove at The Seymour Centre. Together we chat about all things from the rehearsal process to working on a play about Shakespeare that wasn’t written by the bard himself. It’s 1593. The plague has hit London. Theatres are closed, players out of work, houses bolted, people terrified by the touch of another’s skin, the breath of another’s air. Shakespeare, syphilitic and dangerously bored, publishes a scandalous response to the pestilence –an epic work about the very things lost to us, like intimacy, identity, and the erotic freedom of touch.

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@ava.madon or @sportforjove on Instagram

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Created and Produced by Victoria Bullard & Eliza Vine

Edited by Michael Di Guglielmo