Stages Through the Ages Match each photo with the correct caption.
1. Shakespeare’s theatre in the 1590s. Open to the sky, with no electric light. Shakespeare would have loved modern lighting for the atmosphere it could have created in his fight scenes, romantic scenes, or in the last, sad moments, such as in Romeo and Juliet.
B
2. A twenty-first-century Royal Shakespeare theatre, with the audience seated on three sides of the stage. Two catwalks jut into the auditorium. Actors can arrive from the back of the auditorium along these catwalks or spread the action from the main stage down over the heads of the audience.
C
A
3. A Greek open-air amphitheatre, fifth century BC. The theatre was built into a hillside so that as many as 18,000 people could see and hear the play in the arena below.
D
4. The Everyman in Cork. An elegant nineteenth-century theatre with an arch and curtain. There is no ‘surround’ effect. Rather, the audience are on one side only.
