Actually, you might want to visit the Globe Theatre and watch a Shakespeare play. Dress appropriately: The original was as far from the Royal Shakespeare Society as can be imagined. Dress for a football game & fan riot.
Plays at the Globe were… excessively informal. People sat on benches, drank and ate, threw produce on stage, heckled the performers, who stepped out of character to heckle right back… and meanwhile people watched the performance, went home and wrote out the play from memory, and got it published under their own names. That's why we're not sure to this day who really wrote what.
So, yah, knee and elbow pads would be a good idea - and numbed nasal passages too, because you'd be sitting in a crowd of people who bathed twice in the summer and once in the winter and never washed their clothes except by getting rained on. (Dyes were not colorfast and fabric shrank; lye soap and hot water would ruin their clothes.) Nor ever brushed their teeth. Imagine this on a hot day.
But it would be a hilarious, unforgettable experience!
oh gosh, yes! i would give a lot to have been in the gallery at the globe when hamlet was first performed. i've read enough about the history of the place to know i enjoy the idea of it much, much more than i would the reality - being a citizen of a first world country has made me terribly sensitive to bad smells, and a crowded london theatre on a hot summer day in the 1500s would have been the epitome of bad smells!
but it would have been so, so epic. interactive theatre, theatre where people memorised multiple 3 hour long plays and brought them to life day after day, something we rarely see anymore apart from musical theatre. just...wow. and let's not get started on the crossdressing. xDD
a friend of mine recently visited england and went to the new globe theatre. lucky girl....but i bet it wasn't quite the same experience! :D
though, how did you know i would be interested in that? i was writing about music...
Yah, well, your remarks were about going back to the past to witness a performance, and even more than Woodstock, Shakespeare's Globe would be my first choice.
[Oh, by the bye, I saw your entry in depression, what led me here. Hi, there.]
Actually, you might want to visit the Globe Theatre and watch a Shakespeare play. Dress appropriately: The original was as far from the Royal Shakespeare Society as can be imagined. Dress for a football game & fan riot.
Plays at the Globe were… excessively informal. People sat on benches, drank and ate, threw produce on stage, heckled the performers, who stepped out of character to heckle right back… and meanwhile people watched the performance, went home and wrote out the play from memory, and got it published under their own names. That's why we're not sure to this day who really wrote what.
So, yah, knee and elbow pads would be a good idea - and numbed nasal passages too, because you'd be sitting in a crowd of people who bathed twice in the summer and once in the winter and never washed their clothes except by getting rained on. (Dyes were not colorfast and fabric shrank; lye soap and hot water would ruin their clothes.) Nor ever brushed their teeth. Imagine this on a hot day.
But it would be a hilarious, unforgettable experience!
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but it would have been so, so epic. interactive theatre, theatre where people memorised multiple 3 hour long plays and brought them to life day after day, something we rarely see anymore apart from musical theatre. just...wow. and let's not get started on the crossdressing. xDD
a friend of mine recently visited england and went to the new globe theatre. lucky girl....but i bet it wasn't quite the same experience! :D
though, how did you know i would be interested in that? i was writing about music...
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Yah, well, your remarks were about going back to the past to witness a performance, and even more than Woodstock, Shakespeare's Globe would be my first choice.
[Oh, by the bye, I saw your entry in depression, what led me here. Hi, there.]
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