How do I get to Blackfriars theatre? Practice, practice!

[nineweaving]

Has anyone else read Tiffany Stern's Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan (Clarendon Press, 2000)?  Fascinating.  And fairly radically different from the theatre practices we know.

First the author would audition the play to a small group of the sharers:  give a sketch of the scenario, read a few scenes.  If they approved, he'd go on to finish

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[asakiyume]

Absolutely fascinating!

[nineweaving]

Verily. I love delving into practicalities. How I wish I could talk about this with my dear late Madame Buttery, who was all about doing: she'd try an historian's theory 17 ways, and find out what actually worked.

Nine