The Shakespearence

About a week and a half ago we had the chance to go to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and tour around it. It was breath taking. It was a really cool theathre that they set up just like they had it in Shakespeare's time. Also during our tour, we learned a lot about how the plays were practiced and performed. Here are some of the facts that we learned: There were only men that played the parts, no women in the plays; the actors only had their lines for the performance a couple of days in advance and because they had to hand write every script, they wouldn't write out the whole script for everyone, they would only get their lines and the three words that came before their lines; they wrote everything on a roll that they would roll up...hence the term, someone's role in a play; they would perform a different play every night; they would practice the play only the morning of and then perform them that night, they would start practicing around ten in the morning and run through it one time to around one, and then have a one hour lunch break and start performing around 2; and the plays were three hours long, so they only ran thru it one time before performing. We learned a lot more, but I don't remember them anymore. So here are some pictures, and I'm sorry that I bored you with all of that information, it was interesting to me, and so I thought you might like to know that (and I thought that Sunni might like it, and because she is the only one that comments on my blog! Thanks Sunni!).