Will Kemp
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Oct 15, 2026
BranHOST
Uh, this is Christmas in Cant- Canterbury.
BranHOST
Christmas in Canterbury, uh, starring Jesse Schram and Will Kemp.
BranHOST
Rose arrives in Canterbury, England, eager to spend the holidays with her childhood friend.
BranHOST
Oh my, so many childhood friends-
JaxGUEST
I loved being in choir.
JaxGUEST
I love Jesse Schram.
JaxGUEST
I love Will Kemp.
JaxGUEST
Um, I think I'm gonna give this one a three and a half.
EricHOST
But then I was like, Oh, he's significantly, he's 11 years older than she is.
EricHOST
And that's my, my, I got eight, which then Jesse Schramm and Will Kemp.
EricHOST
I had to cross that one up.
EricHOST
Now I think there is like, charming plus adorable.
DaraHOST
This pairing makes sense.
DaraHOST
Jessy Schram, Will Kemp, how has this not happened before? When I first saw this, I was like, "Duh, this makes so much sense." And I immediately thought about The Canterbury Tales because English major.
DaraHOST
And so it's a case of mistaken identity where she comes from Vienna, Ohio, but they think she's the conductor of the Vienna, Austria choir, and so it's this whole thing about trying to right that wrong, and it just seems very, very cute.
DaraHOST
I give that one three and a half as well.
WendyHOST
Let's hope.
MeganHOST
Premiering on Friday, December 11th, It's Christmas In Canterbury, starring Jessie Schram and Will Kemp.
MeganHOST
After losing her beloved Grandma Bud, Rose, played by Schram, leaves her hometown of Vienna, Ohio, to spend Christmas in Canterbury, England, with her childhood friend, Asha, played by Psalm Kapila.
MeganHOST
The two met in a children's choir and both grew up to be choir masters, but when Rose arrives, Asha is put on bed rest and the headmistress offers Rose the job, not realizing Rose worked with a choir in Vienna, Ohio, not Vienna, Austria.
WendyHOST
Exactly.
WendyHOST
And I'm sorry, but I'm looking at a picture of the super adorable Jessie Schram, and she's wearing a tragic blue sweater and a brown skirt, and it's doing nothing.
MeganHOST
Well, and I don't like the idea of a buttoned-up Will Kemp.
WendyHOST
No.
Michael KillenHOST
Okay.
Dianne KillenHOST
Christmas in Canterbury, starring Jesse Schramm and Will Kemp.
Dianne KillenHOST
Really excited about Jesse Schramm.
Dianne KillenHOST
She's, you know, she's been off doing major network shows.
Dianne KillenHOST
When the school's headmistress decides the two choirs should compete against each other for the honor, they get to work to prepare their students.
Dianne KillenHOST
So we have a competitive choir.
Dianne KillenHOST
We have, you know, Will Kemp, Jesse Schramm.
Dianne KillenHOST
I can picture the two in the roles.
Mr ForsterHOST
So, whilst the opening scene of A Midsummer Night's Dream adheres to many of the generic expectations of early modern comedy, two young lovers are separated by an older, ineffectual patriarch who will inevitably be overcome in the comic resolution of the final act, there is still something missing.
Mr ForsterHOST
The evident comic potential in the tangled love web of the four young Athenians is so far unrealised, and it is only with the arrival on stage of the most celebrated clown of the late Elizabethan period, Will Kemp, the first actor to play Bottom, that the play staggers into a more humorous vein.
Mr ForsterHOST
Nevertheless, within the comic malapropisms and bombastic flair we see in the clowning of the rude mechanicals, there is also a metatheatrical comment on the nature of acting on the early modern stage, defined by an altogether different kind of humour.
Mr ForsterHOST
So the question's on humour.
7 MINS LATER
Mr ForsterHOST
Which is
Miss YemHOST
probably the easiest thing to write about in this extract, isn't it? Is the character of Bottom, who we're meeting for the first time in this scene.
Mr ForsterHOST
And perhaps an important contextual point is that we know that Nick Bottom was played by the most famous clown of the early modern period, Will Kemp.
Mr ForsterHOST
And Will Kemp was in the 1590s.
Felix TrenchHOST
Henry V is famous, among other things, for the fact that Falstaff is dead off page in it.
Felix TrenchHOST
So my question is, who does Will Kemp play? And I put it to you.
Felix TrenchHOST
that there are two Will Kemp-coded characters.
Felix TrenchHOST
One of them is Flewellyn the Welshman, and the other is Canterbury.
Felix TrenchHOST
And if Canterbury is played as a funny, pompous character who kind of goes on and on and on about nonsense like Salick Law, I think the boring scene slots into place.
ReneHOST
Oh, no.
AmyGUEST
I'm going to go with Christmas in Canterbury with Jesse Schramm and Will Kemp.
AmyGUEST
I just, I love her, too.
AmyGUEST
And I really like him.
ReneeGUEST
no. Oh no.
AmyHOST
I'm going to go with Christmas in Canterbury with Jesse Schramm and Will Kemp.
AmyHOST
I just, I love her too.
AmyHOST
And I really like him.
JoshHOST
We are talking Christmas in Canterbury.
JoshHOST
This is Jesse Schramm and Will Kemp.
JoshHOST
Friday, December 11th.
JoshHOST
Rose arrives in Canterbury, England, eager to spend the holidays with her childhood friend Asha as she leaves behind her hometown of Vienna, Ohio, following the passing of her beloved grandma, Bud.