Playing Indoors: Staging Early Modern Drama in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

What have we discovered about performance practice in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse since the opening of the intimate candlelit theatre at Shakespeare's Globe? Playing Indoors reveals the results of a two-year study into the performance of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama in this unique theatre, drawing together insights into early modern stage practice and the observations of today's actors and spectators. A history of the experiences of artists and audience members who experienced the space first, the book is also a study of the significance of re-imagined theatres like the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse and the Globe. Accessibly written and intended for a wide audience of students, scholars, artists and theatre-goers, Playing Indoors is a valuable contribution to the young field of early modern practice-as-research.

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Playing Indoors: Staging Early Modern Drama in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

What have we discovered about performance practice in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse since the opening of the intimate candlelit theatre at Shakespeare's Globe? Playing Indoors reveals the results of a two-year study into the performance of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama in this unique theatre, drawing together insights into early modern stage practice and the observations of today's actors and spectators. A history of the experiences of artists and audience members who experienced the space first, the book is also a study of the significance of re-imagined theatres like the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse and the Globe. Accessibly written and intended for a wide audience of students, scholars, artists and theatre-goers, Playing Indoors is a valuable contribution to the young field of early modern practice-as-research.

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Playing Indoors: Staging Early Modern Drama in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

Playing Indoors: Staging Early Modern Drama in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

by Will Tosh
Playing Indoors: Staging Early Modern Drama in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

Playing Indoors: Staging Early Modern Drama in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

by Will Tosh

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What have we discovered about performance practice in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse since the opening of the intimate candlelit theatre at Shakespeare's Globe? Playing Indoors reveals the results of a two-year study into the performance of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama in this unique theatre, drawing together insights into early modern stage practice and the observations of today's actors and spectators. A history of the experiences of artists and audience members who experienced the space first, the book is also a study of the significance of re-imagined theatres like the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse and the Globe. Accessibly written and intended for a wide audience of students, scholars, artists and theatre-goers, Playing Indoors is a valuable contribution to the young field of early modern practice-as-research.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781350013889
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 02/22/2018
Pages: 296
Product dimensions: 5.08(w) x 7.80(h) x (d)

About the Author

Will Tosh is Lecturer and Research Fellow at Shakespeare's Globe, London, UK. He led the Indoor Performance Practice Project (2014-16), which examined playing in the candle-lit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, and coordinates Globe Education's on-going Research in Action series of public workshops. He is the author of Male Friendship and Testimonies of Love in Shakespeare's England (2016).

Table of Contents

List of Plates
Acknowledgements
Note on texts and editions
Prologue Part I. Playhouse in context
Chapter 1. Origins
Chapter 2. Reception
Part II. Playhouse at work
Chapter 3. 'Fair lightsome lodgings': Initial responses to the space
Chapter 4. 'Full and significant action': Technique and craft
Chapter 5. 'This darkness suits you well': Acting by candlelight
Chapter 6. 'You can't help but be involved': Audiences in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Part III. Playhouse and Research in Action
Chapter 7. Stagecraft in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Chapter 8. Music and lighting in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Epilogue
Appendices
Bibliography
Index

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