Last Friday saw the most recent event in the extensive engagement programme around MOLA’s excavations of The Curtain Theatre on behalf of Cain Hoy Investments and Galliard Homes. Time Truck Project Officer Magnus Copps offers this soliloquy on the day:
Our outing for Shakespeare Week to Hackney Town Hall began with the pilot of our new Dramatic Discoveries education session (to be delivered as part of the Time Truck Outreach Programme from September 2017). A class from Colvestone Primary, Dalston, were given the first opportunity to learn more about our discoveries at the Curtain through the workshop. These included looking at and reconstructing reproductions of different objects found at the site, and looking at how our discoveries around the organisation of the theatre may have influenced the way that plays were staged and even written there. The highlight of the workshop was a series of re-enactments from plays, which included both Act 1 Scene 1 (“In fair Hackney [Verona], where we lay our scene…”) and Act 3 Scene 1 (“A plague on both your houses”) of Romeo & Juliet, which yielded some performances worthy of the stage at the Hackney Empire next door!
