Found: The Theatre

[fictional]

You know, it takes a certain amount of chutzpah to call a playhouse The Theatre. There's a certain audacity to the definite article that is unparalleled by lesser determiners.

Anyway, in case you've not heard, what once was lost has now been found. It's really pretty exciting at least for those of us who are Shakespeare geeks. Richard & James Burbage! Will Shakespeare! They demolished it [The Theatre] in the middle of the night, so that they could steal the boards and reuse them to make the Globe - the first English playhouse owned by a company of players. I bet you could write a pretty phenomenal story or play based on the events of that particular evening. They hauled the boards themselves, claiming later that the landlord might own the lease, but, by gum, the theatre itself was theirs!

I love that it's going to still be a working theatre. That is freakin' awesome. The show must go on.

Comments

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

I am oddly charmed by this idea. Something about the idea of stealing re-assigning ownership of buildings in the night just suits me. Show up it the morning, and *poof* gone! Might be harder when churches are composed of stone as opposed to boards, however.