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.
This post also appears on The National Archives blog.  
On Saturday 21st, we enjoyed seeing the puffed-up knight Huanebango being struck down by a disembodied voice, entering a sixteenth-century smoking area, meeting the cosmopolitan neighbours of 1580s Shoreditch, and learning how to use a sword and buckler...