Playing Indoors
Staging Early Modern Drama in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:21st Mar '19
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An analysis of performance and culture in the unique indoor Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare's Globe theatre in London, UK.
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 encounters 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 for students, scholars, artists and theatre-goers, Playing Indoors is a valuable contribution to the young field of early modern practice-as-research.
A powerful introductory panorama of the first few years of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, offering a pleasing insight to a general public and a useful point of departure for an academic readership … Tosh has provided a much-needed account of the inner workings of this space from various perspectives. * Skenè Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies *
With academic rigour, with mischievous wit, and with infectious excitement, Will Tosh records the progress of the creation of this jewel of a new theatre. A book of sharp pleasure. -- DOMINIC DROMGOOLE, Director, Classic Spring & Open Palm Films
This is a fascinating cultural history of a new theatre and its reception; it offers a perceptive reading of our contemporary relationship with the "Jacobean" and draws upon a wealth of scholarly research, artists’ experience and audience responses, to explore how architecture, aesthetics, text and practitioner create theatrical meaning. -- BRIDGET ESCOLME, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Will Tosh’s exhilarating exploration makes Theatre History anew as the history of a single theatre. This is a superbly engaging scholarly celebration of a remarkable theatre space. -- PETER HOLLAND, University of Notre Dame, USA
ISBN: 9781350109506
Dimensions: 198mm x 124mm x 20mm
Weight: 320g
296 pages