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Theater

Life

Public Theater - Open air

• repertory system - rarely act same play 2 days in a row- unlike today

• Include only males

• Performed in afternoon-No artificial lighting. 
  • When getting dark use lit candles until end of play

• Plays contain little/no scenery- Actors describe through the play

• street theater - temp. stage and performs to the "passer-by".
  • to attract attention- improvisation and adapting comic sketch to suit responses from audience- to catch attention

• groundlings stand - cheapest- 5lbs

• best sound=most expensive.
  • all about the acoustics

• top of stage reps heaven
• stage itself-earth
• under stage reps hell

• Globe theater burned down 2- hard to get permission to rebuild- took 8 years to get permission

Shutdowns

• "Nest of the devil" Puritans believe
  •  shut down Theater

• Theater banned in the city
  • Centered outside of London
• Banned
  • plague-1572 

Companies/Production

• Once play sold to company writer no linger owned it- had no control over casting/performance/revision/publication. 
• Playwrights get proceeds of one day performance and increments during writing process