Our Theatres vr. Shakespeare's Theatres

How do our theatres differ from those in Shakespeare's time? To answer that question I will first talk about our theaters then I will tell you about Shakespeare’s theaters. Our new theaters are clean. They have restrooms. They have floors. There are roofs over the audience and you usually go to them at night. You can even get food with the show at some places, and you sit in chairs. That is just the audiences perspective. The actors have props on stage, they practice the play for months, they perform the same show for weeks and weeks, they have microphones, and there is an intermission so the set can get changed and the actors can have a little breather. Now I will tell you about the theaters that Shakespeare had to work with. There where little or no props, no roofs, dirt floors, no seats unless you had enough money to pay for a cushion. The costumes had to be very elaborate to get the message across. The plays where preformed in the middle of the day, the actors had only a couple of days to memorize and practice their lines for the play. They sometimes would memorize another play while they were performing the current play. They would only perform a play for a couple of days. That is how our theaters are different from Shakespeare’s theaters.