A Midsummers Nights Dream Original Performance Conditions

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

Resource summary

	Created by kathryn.parsons. about 9 years ago