Zusammenfassung der Ressource
A Midsummers Nights Dream Original
Performance Conditions
- SOUND
- Live
- man made
- thunder sheet
- Trumpets signalled exists, entrances
- LIGHT
- No electricity
- Candelabra
- Candles
- sunlight
- ACTING
- Loud
- Heroic
- Exaggerated
- Multi-rolling
- Would have to change plays most nights
- Casted based on physical appearance
- all male
- chamberlain Men
- AUDIENCE
- Groundlings 1p tickets on the floor. Standing
- Set depending on status
- Would throw tomatoes if not entertained
- COSTUME
- dangerous led + white paint makeup
- colour, layers represented status
- inherited from aristocrats
- Elizabethan and
contemporary
- SET
- Pronescium arch
- 2 pillars made Balcony/ trapdoor
- Single backdrop
- Open roofed
- The Theatre (1576)
- round, front on, raised stage
- flag represented play
- trumpets at beginning
- Indoor blackfriars for higher status
- PROPS
- limited, "crowns"