1st Edition

The Shakespeare North Playhouse Replica Theatres and Their Uses

Edited By Tim Keenan Copyright 2024
292 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

292 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

292 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This collection celebrates the opening of the Shakespeare North Playhouse (SNP). After discussion of its genesis and development by four people pivotal to its progress at different stages of the project, this book explores different aspects of the SNP’s purpose and functions across three broad categories: buildings and spaces, practices and performance, and community arts and education. Various... Read more

Part 1 Origins and Development

1. Why Build a Replica Theatre in Knowsley? The Story of a Journey from a Vision to Reality

Kathy Dacre

2. Making the Shakespeare North Playhouse: Paradoxes, Entanglements, and Fluidities

Elspeth Graham

3. The Shakespeare North Playhouse: A Story of Passion, Policy, and Pragmatism

Ian Tabbron

4. Interview with Nicholas Helm, Architect of the Shakespeare North Playhouse

Nicholas Helm, Interviewed by Tim Keenan

Part 2 Buildings and Spaces

5. Chasing the 90%: Establishing the Facts about the Cockpit-in-Court

Tim Keenan

6. Past Theatres and New Spaces: Shifting Meanings for Actors and Audiences

Frank Whately

7. Interview with Jim Warren, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the American Shakespeare Center, 1988–2017 and Current Founding Artistic Director of the American Globe Center

Jim Warren, Interviewed by Tim Keenan

8. Dealing with the Elizabethan Edifice Complex

Tim Fitzpatrick

Part 3 Practices and Performance

9. Finding Our Light

Oliver Senton

10. The Accidental Time Traveller

Callum Coates

11. Interview with Ben Crystal, SNP Associate Artist and Independent Author/Actor/Creative Producer/Theatre Practitioner

Ben Crystal, Interviewed by Tim Keenan

12. "Making the Invisible Visible": The Shakespeare North Playhouse as Replica Theatre and Research Instrument in PaR

Ildiko Solti

Part 4 Community Arts and Education

13. Commedia in the Community

Olly Crick

14. Community Considerations for Shakespeare North Playhouse

Rob Brannen

15. Cultivating Young People’s Connections to Shakespeare North Playhouse

Carly Henderson

16. "Shakespeare on Your Doorstep": Opportunities for Inclusion and Participation in the Educational and Community Work of Shakespeare North Playhouse

Jennifer Kitchen

Biography

Tim Keenan is Senior Lecturer in Drama at Liverpool Hope University, UK. He is an early modernist with a focus on seventeenth-century theatre production.