This is the question actors are often asked. Actors dread it because they always hope that their performance was what mattered most, not the mechanics of getting there
“Which room did Shakespeare write Hamlet in?” An American tourist asked me this question at the entrance to Kronborg Castle in Helsingør, Denmark. In fact, unlike his famous contemporary, Christopher Marlowe, who wrote Dr Faustus and was known as the ‘prince of poets’, Shakespeare never even left England. The setting of Hamlet in the rooms and courtyard of Kronborg Castle must have been based on Shakespeare’s imagination. Or was it?
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Vivienne McKee
People over 50 make up one third of the working population and this is growing. Take a look around your workplace. Are one in three people aged 50 and over? If not, where are these workers?
Around the world, theatres are charging more to recover from their pandemic financial losses. Large theatre venues are expensive to rent, and more bums on seats for one show means fewer shows with fewer costs.