A New History of West End Theatre
For an exhibition and a comedy screenplay, with new research and all sorts.
By Eva Griffith.
Here are files and pieces of information towards a different history of West End theatre, with Clerkenwell, London, at its heart.
Two published articles follow which contribute to this.
‘Christopher Beeston and the Cockpit-Phoenix in Documents’. The Cockpit was the first theatre built in the Drury Lane area of London 1616. Christopher Beeston was an actor who knew Shakespeare when Beeston was a teenage actor in Shoreditch.
The year 1616 was the year Shakespeare died in Stratford-Upon-Avon…
‘Martin Slatiar and the Red Bull playhouse’ was published in a Huntington Library Quarterly issue, Vol. 74(4), in 2011. Do read but, be warned – some of the scholarship may soon change…