The two doors allowed flexible movement on and off the central area "above" must also have been used for such Tours are available, Address: Waterside, Stratford-upon-Avon, CV37 6BB times before the performance began. Stratford Playhouse is a modern multi-purpose venue in central Stratford-upon-Avon, which offers a wide range of artistic and cultural activities. Join us for a season of "Mischief, Mayhem, & Mystery!" Click on sections of the illustration to learn about Many plays premiered in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre go on to tour the UK and the world. Shakespeare’s earliest plays were performed at The Theatre. The auditorium itself is a more intimate space than the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, with 426 seats (and 32 standing spaces) set around a deep thrust stage, making it a firm favourite with directors, actors and audiences, and regarded as one of the finest spaces in the world for actors to ply their trade. When the company moved to the Globe Shakespeare became a partner in the company and eventually became wealthy partly as a result of that. Swan Theatre, Elizabethan theatre built about 1595 by Francis Langley in Bankside, London. A few blocks away from the Globe in the other direction was the Swan Theatre. through the performance. 1913 Alteration: proscenium arch altered; orchestra pit lowered (architect unknown). The venue includes an impressive atrium leading to a unique curved theatre seating system, along with a courtyard garden and meeting rooms available for hire. They’re well worth the house spent, with some great insight inot the history of the theatres, and plenty of anecdotes about the many great and good who’ve trod the boards here (for example, did you know that in the event of the Houses of Parliament being damaged during the second world war, Churchill planned to relocate here?). Website: https://www.rsc.org.uk/news/live-outdoor-performances. Registered Charity Number 274697, 1879 Owner/Management: Shakespeare Memorial Association. Box office: +44 (0)1789 333990 Also included in the redevelopment were new facilities including a large bar in the old ticket office, exhibition spaces, rooftop bar and restaurant an impressive auditorium and 36-meter viewing tower giving views over Stratford and the surrounding countryside. Front of house and back of house doors are available multiple times a day, depending on the season, and what plays are on any given day. Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet  The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida  Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale. Website: https://www.rsc.org.uk/your-visit/the-other-place. 1879 Design/Construction: Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. 1961 Owner/Management: Royal Shakespeare Company. Stratford is, of course, the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company, which alone has three permanent theatres in the town – the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, the Swan Theatre and The Other Place, plus the seasonal pop-up outdoor Dell Theatre. which he had visited. Few parts of the 1879 building survived, but were incorporated by Scott rather than demolished. Men, played there in the same year. (fortunately) had copied it. This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. Behind the Swan's stage and at the heart of this transformation is the new Royal Shakespeare Theatre: a large thrust stage, with seating on three levels, and high specification technical facilities above the auditorium, and within the fly tower. Unsworth was probably the principal author. Its 33m high viewing platform looks out across the roofs of the theatres, across the historic town of Stratford, and beyond to the countryside. Writing long after the event (in 1953), the architect and historian Goodhart-Rendel said that the theatre was a 'monument of some importance... a notable work of architecture, well befitting its purpose... a people's theatre in which the play is the thing'. After logging in you can close it and return to this page. The current building, which opened in November 2010 contains little, if anything, of that first building. The Swan Courtesy of the University Library, Utrecht. what were known as the "gentlemen's rooms." 1938 Alteration: tearoom built on ground floor with restaurant above. Maureen and Bruce McKenna originally named the Adobe Rose after the Rose Theatre in London, around the corner from Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. could be let down from it by pulley. The repertoire of The Swan Theatre tends to be focussed as much on Shakespeare’s contemporaries as on Shakespeare himself, as well as plays written by more modern and contemporary playwrights. 1936 Alteration: gallery seating of new theatre extended and refreshment room created on river front. 1903 Alteration: part re-painting of act drop. It was large—it projected half way into the "yard" where the lowest-paying 1933 Alteration: old Memorial Theatre converted to conference and rehearsal room. the Chamberlain's in many scenes in the History plays. The decor is again understated, with wood flooring, and simple wood-and-steel balcony fronts. In 1977 the Black Swan opened with Shelagh Delaney’s play, A Taste of Honey, directed by James Edmondson. Box office: 01789 331111 and he admired the way the wooden pillars resembled marble. The auditorium of the successful Swan Theatre had only minor alterations, with its thrust stage surrounded by bench-style seating at stalls level and on two simple wooden balustraded galleries. It is a striking work of its time, its plain brick forms, originally conceived as concrete, relieved by a minimum of geometric ornament. The building now houses both the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and the Swan Theatre, which share the same box office and all other facilities, though have different auditoriums, backstage areas and entrances.

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