John Lyly was the foremost literary figure during a period that saw the first permanent commercial theatres built in London. As Shakespeare's best-selling and most famous literary contemporary, it is crazy to think that the 2017 Dolphin's Back production in the Wanamaker will be the first time Lyly has appeared in a UK professional playhouse … Continue reading The Woman in the Moon onstage
workshops
The Three Ladies of London and Red Lion workshop, 22 January 2017
Our first workshop with The Dolphin's Back took place yesterday (22 January 2017), exploring the earliest surviving play from English commercial theatre on the site of the earliest purpose-built commercial playhouse. Exactly 450 years after John Brayne sought to "frame, make, or build and set up . . . within the court or yard lying on … Continue reading The Three Ladies of London and Red Lion workshop, 22 January 2017
