For the Glasgow theatre company of the 1930s, see Curtain Theatre (Glasgow).
Curtain Theatre
Address
18 Hewett Street London England
Years active
1577–1622?
The Curtain Theatre is labelled in the top right of this London street map. Enlarge
The Curtain Theatre was an Elizabethan playhouse located in Hewett Street, Shoreditch (within the modern London Borough of Hackney), just outside the City of London. It opened in 1577, and continued staging plays until 1624.[1]
The Curtain was built some 200 yards (180 m) south of London's first playhouse, The Theatre, which had opened a year before, in 1576. It was called the "Curtain" because it was located near a plot of land called Curtain Close, which derived its name in turn from its proximity to the walls of Holywell Priory, a curtain wall being a section of wall between two bastions.[2][3] (The name bears no relationship to the front curtain associated with modern theatres.) The remains of the theatre were rediscovered in archaeological excavations in 2012–16. The most significant revelation was that the Curtain was rectangular, not round. The excavation revealed a 14-metre (46 ft) stage, and evidence of a tunnel under the stage and galleries at the first floor level. Small finds included a ceramic bird whistle; ceramic money boxes for collecting entry fees; beads probably used for decorating stage costumes; and a small statue of Bacchus.
^Bawcutt, N. W. (1996). The Control and Censorship of Caroline Drama: The Records of Sir Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels, 1623–1673. Oxford: Clarendon. pp. 141, 150. ISBN 9780198122463.
^Joseph Quincy Adams, Shakespearean Playhouses, Boston, 1917, p. 76.
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