playhouses

Lyly's Galatea (c.1584) enjoyed some more research and development with actors in August 2021, as it heads towards a production in collaboration with Wildworks, when director Emma Frankland gathered theatremakers at the 101 Outdoor Creation Space (thanks to their seed funding).

The Curtain, in use from 1577 until 1625, has probably the longest of lifespan of all early modern playhouses, yet it had for some time been ‘the most ignored of the early modern London amphitheatres’ (Stern 2009, 77-78).

This weekend would have seen our first workshop on wrestling, gender and entertainment.

Welcome to Elizabethan England via the digital world! This post takes the form of "remote quest(ions)" that take us on a tour of early modern recreation via a range of digital platforms...

Before Shakespeare and Engendering the Stage are delighted to announce our next performance workshop, focusing on combat as entertainment—in both Shakespeare’s time and today.

For this piece, I’ll be spending a year in the young Curtain playhouse as it makes its way into the brave new decade of 1580s.