Plaid Tidings to you

KW, we are off to the play.  Ok, tour guide, have fun, going to plays is not my idea of fun.  You will miss a good time.  I didn't lose anything at the play and I'm not going there to find it.  Hey tour guide, what is the play you are going to see anyway?  Plaid Tidings.  Never heard of it.  Thank you KW.



Tour Guides dressed and ready to go.


At the Brighams Playhouse


Usie in our seats in the front row


Usie if front of their Christmas Tree


Tickets


Play Bills




This is a desert playhouse.  They serve cookies, ice cream, cakes, water, sodas.


Lunch when we got home.  Rutabaga (potato) salad, Ham and Turkey sandwiches, Salad, and assorted pickles and olives.


Mrs tour guide cutting up beets for the salad.



Mrs tour guide Scrapping.


Tour guide Blogging.


TTFN:

Playhouses:

Before the first public playhouses were built in London in the late 16th century, players performed in the yards and upper rooms of the capital's many inns.  By the early 1600's there were several playhouses just outside the city of London.  They were of two types:

Open-air amphitheateres.  These were usually polygonal.  The stage projected into the central yard and may or may not have been covered.  The audience stood around the stage in the yard, where places were cheapest, or stood or sat in the tiers of galleries that enclosed it.  These playhouses relied on natural light.

Indoor halls.  These were rectangular, with the stage along one of the short sides.  The audience sat, either immediately in front of the stage where seats were most expensive, or in galleries which ran around the other three sides of the room.  These playhouses were lit by candles and torches.

The Swan (theatre)  A 1595 sketch of a performance in progress on the thrust stage of the Swan.  The Swan was a theatre in Southwark, London, England built in 1595 on top of a previously standing structure, during the first half of William Shakespeare's career.  It was the fifth in the series of large public playhouses of London, after James Burbage's The Theatre (1576) and Curtain (1577), the Newington Butts Theatre (1575 and 1577) and Philip Henslowe's Rose (1587-88).