#english theatre

[itsmalombra]

Macbeth litographs by Alberto Martini (Italian, 1876-1954)

[alanbates]

the day contemporary theatre peaked with the passive aggressive gay play

[tina-aumont]

This photo is taken in 1978 and shows the actors and actresses from Roy Hart Theatre in Malerargues, the South of France, where the company moved in 1974.

In the bottom part of the stairs we can see a brunette with short hair and great smile who I'm positive it's María Montez II, however in this page (she is labeled with number 36) she is identifyed as Maria Mirren. Can it be possible she was married to a Mirren hence the change of surname?

Anyway, enjoy the photos, more will come very soon!!

[thedrawingduke]

I realized I never posted these here on tumblr! 2020 did unspeakable things to my mind and body…I staggered away from lockdown with a whole pitch of how I would make an animated Cats adaptation. I got the whole thing up here *taps skull*—it would be Very Good. I can’t think about it too much lest I awaken my sleeping obsession…still want to finish Old Deut and Macavity one of these days.

Fun fact: The term "Jellicle Cat" is actually the cats’ mishearing of the term "Dear Little Cat" (this gives me much joy)

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[ancientsstudies]

[silverystardustt]

At its core, every piece of media we ever have consumed and ever will consume — whether it’s art, music, books, movies — is fundamentally about love, or the lack of it.

it’s an inescapable facet of human life. it could be about the love you have for people in your life, or how much you hate your job, or love your city, but the love is always there.

[welcometogrouchland]

I understand that literature nerd Jason Todd is kind of overblown in fanon compared to it's actual presence in canon (a few issues during his pre (and post?)crisis Robin tenure that highlight it) BUT consider that I think it's hilarious if the unhinged gun toting criminal has strong opinions on poetry

[sugarrinjection]

JANE, JADE, JAKE... AND SOMEONE!

im proud of this and wanted to post it to tumblr even if its not gonna get any traction whatever lololz

[placeofwonder]

lately: enjoyed my beautiful town in the sun and reviewed two plays for the student magazine, which is a great outlet for the part of my brain that wishes I was still studying humanities

[oscarwildin]

“Todd sat mouthing the lines with him as if he might help Neil get through it. But Neil needed no help.”

AND THEY WANT US TO BELIEVE THEY WERE ONLY ROOMMATES!?!

[science-lings]

AU where Phoenix is a drama teacher and Edgeworth is an English teacher and they’re both really weird about Shakespeare

Or

drama teacher!Phoenix and dance teacher! Edgeworth have to work together for a high school play without trying to kill each other (it gets real fuckin close)

[itsacruelsummerwithyou2]

thinking about hamlet with a female laertes. thinking about ophelia having an older sister who warns her off of hamlet not to slut shame, but because she knows how men can be. thinking about laertes as a woman who lacks ophelia’s naivety and gertrude’s chosen apathy, who instead has as much potential for rage and violence as the men she’s surrounded by. thinking about hamlet’s relationship to women and his own masculinity being further complicated by his foil, the character who becomes the mirror to his own grief, the one who ultimately kills him, being a woman. just… thinking about a female laertes.

[tacccalb]

what do i even caption this

[entropy404]

You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

[strawberryshortpace]

I don’t know what theater kid needs to hear it, but making a mistake (or multiple) on stage is not the end of the world and you don’t suck for it

Brought to you by the fact that today I saw Jeremy Jordan drop something on stage, break character mid song to go ‘woops’, and stumble over multiple lines in an official Broadway Production

[shakespearenews]

Elizabeth Russell was just as fiercely territorial in London, where she maintained a mansion in the upmarket district of Blackfriars. In 1596 the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, the playing company to which William Shakespeare belonged, was facing a crisis. The lease for the land where the acting troupe’s main venue, the Theatre in Shoreditch, stood was about to expire. Facing an uncertain future, the impresario James Burbage, who had created the Theatre, sunk a fortune into a new venture: a playhouse in Blackfriars. It cost a colossal £1,000 to purchase and renovate the property.

Unfortunately for Burbage and the players, the theatre was just over 120 feet from Elizabeth’s doorstep. Neither she nor her neighbours had objected to a previous theatre nearby, which had operated under the guise of a ‘private’ rehearsal space for the queen’s choristers (even though the paying public had attended performances there). But when she discovered that a ‘common playhouse’ was about to open in her elegant neighbourhood she was furious.

Galvanising her local community into action, Elizabeth got up a petition against the opening of the Blackfriars Theatre. Among its 30 signatories were Richard Field, Shakespeare’s first publisher, and Sir George Carey, the playing company’s patron. Neither dared object to Elizabeth’s anti-theatrical uprising.