The Rover

We actually did a Spring Play Reading Series as well.

We did in the spring, we did a reading of The Rover, which was an Aphra Behn comedy.

Aphra Behn is the name of the first English female professional playwright.

and a contemporary of William Shakespeare.

And she wrote a comedy called The Rover, which we read in the spring, along with a new comedy by Aaron Woods, who is also the author of Jane Austen's Christmas Cracker, which is coming up in December.

But Aaron wrote a play called How to Write a Regency Romance.

And it is sort of an homage to the romance book phenom that's going on currently in the world in play form.

It was- ...

Aphra Behn's The Rover, which I hate, and anyone can feel free to email me-

[laughs]

... um, if they wanna talk about it.

And the way that we should stop doing Tammy the Shrew-

Mm

... and do Bold Stroke for a Husband instead, we need to stop doing The Rover and do Lucky Chance instead.

Thank you so much.

Read by MB.

Wilmore, the Rover.

Read by Robin King.

Frederick, an English Gentleman, and Friend to Belville and Blount.

Exeunt.

End of Act I.

Act II of The Rover, Part I, by Aphra Behn.

This is a LibriVox recording.

... evidence of the actual voice of the artist, because their voice is not present most of the time.

Yeah, I'm thinking about the prologue to The Rover.

Mm-hmm.

And I think it's also the epilogue, uh, of The Rover as well-

Yeah

... where it is very winkingly like, "Oh, if you find any fault in the scripts, please remember it's written by a woman." [laughs]

Amazing.

And I did a play called The Rover there, and I played the rover in The Rover.

And by fluke, they've got three theatres plus at the RSC.

I've always, always, like nine plays in the same little theatre, The Swan, which is only 450 seats.

Silly, beautiful.

But I've only done shows in there by complete fluke.

And The Rover in The Swan, which means Captain Blackheart crossed with Jack Sparrow, you know, I got to come on, swing on on a rope.

Oh,