This is London’s most famous theatre, and the oldest still in use. The first theatre on this site was built in 1662. Known as “the Theatre Royal in Bridges Sreet”, it opened on 7 May 16’63. The whole theatre was about the same size as the stage of the present Drury Lane; the pit benches were […]
The first theatre on this site was built in 1720 by a carpenter named John Potter who erected a small theatre on the site of an inn called “The King’s Head”. The present Haymarket, designed by Nash, was built in 1820 and opened on 4 July 1821. The Haymarket was the last theatre in London […]
The discovery of a medicinal spring in the grounds of a Mr Sadler in the year 1683—84 led to the establishment of a popular pleasure-garden there, which became known as Sadler’s Wells. Entertainments of a varied nature were given, and Sadler, in partnership with a dancing-master named Forcer, erected a wooden “Music House” with a […]
Old Vic Theatre (in the Waterloo Road) is famous for its Shakespeare productions. The theatre opened in 1818. It was originally the Royal Cobury. Owning to the state of the roads the rank and fashion of town were unwilling to risk the journey across the river, and the Cobury became a local house for melodrama […]
Cymbeline by William Shakespeare Presented by the RSG at Stratford-upon-Avon on 4 June 1974. Directed by John Barton with Barry Kyle and Clifford Williams, designed by John Napier with Martyn Bainbridge and Sue Jenkinson, lighting by David Hersey, music by James Walker.
YOUNG VIC (by Ned Chaillet) Boys’ voices tell the story best. The soprano lilt to songs and the piercing shrieks from, roughhousing and rivalries go a long way to suggest what life for the boy actors of the Elizabethan theatre might have been like. Twenty-four boys from several schools have now joined the company of […]
