Bankside Players

Looking for a different way to teach your students what life was like “behind the curtain” in Shakespeare's age? The Bankside Players become the Bard’s apprentices and players, theatre wives and orange sellers, fellow playwrights and even Her Majesty the Queen — all bringing the Globe Theatre to vivid life.
 
Based on poems from the verse novel, In the Shadow of the Globe, these performers rise for an early morning practice, buy noble hand-me-downs to use as costumes, suffer at the hands of a stingy mistress, rip down the posters of another acting company, and dread a performance for the terrifying Queen Elizabeth. They perform amid a backdrop that includes a day at the bear baiting ring, the heart-wrenching pestilence of bubonic plague, a fire at the Globe Theatre, and the hustle and bustle of Tudor England.

Assembly Information

• Suitable for grades 7-12
• Length: 40-45 minutes
• Size: limited by facility
  Typical audience size 250
• Presentation area: a stage
• Set-up/take-down time:
  • Setup: 45 minutes
  • Take-down: 30 minutes
  • 15 minutes between performances
• Price for one assembly is $995.00
• Each additional assembly performed at the same location on the same day is $200.00 extra.
• Price includes supplemental teaching materials and one copy of In the Shadow of the Globe.