Globe Theater

Monday, April 6 I went to the Globe for a field trip with my Shakespeare class as a field trip. I had been there before, but it was still fun. The professor arranged for a Shakespearean researcher lecture to tell us some things about the globe and the use of "cue" scripts. A "cue script" is script which only includes that actors lines, it is essentially only a part of the play and come as a rolled up parchment. And that is where the words "part" and "role' comes from for a character. The actor would only know his lines and then the last few words of a person before him. So if a conversion on stage was:

A: "Hello, I am having an excellent day. How are you?"

B: "Amazing!"

Part B's script would look like this:

"...are you?"

B: "Amazing!"

This made the actors stay on their toes because they had no idea who was saying their line or when it was coming in the scene. It made the play look less like a play and more like real life. It also saved paper from the expensive printing of Shakespeare's time and saved plays from being stolen by competitors since no play whole plays were not distrusted to anyone, not even actors.

It was to bad that the stage was under construction for an upcoming production of Romeo and Juliet, but considering the whole thing is a giant reconstruction, it was fine.

Great class field trip :-)