rose theatre: Hamlet

yesterday we went to Shakespeares rose theatre, which much to our surprise, opened again. you can see my older post by clicking here .

ok so hamlet is the play we saw. we also went to Cliffords tower were me and abbie fought to the death (well almost).

The Rose Theatre

The Rose was built in 1587 by Philip Henslowe and a grocer named John Cholmley. It was the first purpose-built playhouse to ever stage a production of any of Shakespeare's plays. The theatre was built on a messuage called the "Little Rose," which Henslowe had leased from the parish of St. Saviour, Southwark in 1585.

The Rose was the first of several theatres to be situated in Bankside, Southwark near the south shore of the River Thames. The area was known for its leisure attractions such as bear/bull-baitings, gaming dens and brothels. It was located in the Liberty of Clink, a liberty outside the jurisdiction of the City of London's civic authorities.

The Rose contained substantial rose gardens and two buildings; Cholmley used one as a storehouse but I don't know what Henslowe used his for. North of London, professional playhouses like the Curtain Theatre and The Theatre had already been open for over a decade.

In York they have built a replica of the rose theatre and that is were me, Abbie and nanny went yesterday. The play we saw  is called a midsummer nights dream and it is very good in my opinion  it made me laugh and the fairy's were dressed up as trees. They were doing things like one fairy took someones bag and dumped it in front of the person it belonged to.  I don't think abbie liked it though because she was hardly looking at it.The theatre is like a pop up one  but more impressive  especially on the inside  but sadly after the second of september it will be taken down as it was only open for ten weeks. 

A Special Trip To York

Yesterday we went to York. When we got there we went to York castle museum which we went in because it's the  hundredth anniversary this year and they have something on which is good for me because I'm doing a WW1 project  (you can go to my previous post which is called York museums by clicking here).

After we went up to Clifford's tower. It wasn't as good as I hoped it would be but we saw York Minster and Shakespeare's rose theatre. Next we went to a place with Ice cream that we knew we liked  we were going to go to pound stretcher but a street performer  was doing some funny things  in the end we needed to run to the rose theatre so we wouldn't miss the start of mid summer nights dream.

Oh almost forgot on the way to York castle museum we past the jorvik centre and opposite  it there were two people who were from the jorvik centre and they were doing charm bags  me and abbie did one to and I picked lapis and blood stone for my two stones and yarrow and rosemary for my two herbs. 

York museums

On Friday me my nanny and my sister went to York on a train. Once there we went to three different museums they are Yorkshire museum York castle museum  and National Railway Museum.

We first went to the Yorkshire museum. A kind lady gave us some nuts to feed the squirrels and said that they would take the nuts out of our hands, most of them went to some pigeons one of the pigeons had a broken foot and it got most of my nuts.

 In the Yorkshire museum there was a viking exhibit a roman exhibit a extinct exhibit and a Ice age exhibit.In the viking exhibit there was a thing that tells you how viking you are and I am 79 percent viking my sister is 74 percent and my Nan is 66 percent. There was a animal exhibit and there was a red squirrel and a gray squirrel and the size of the red squirrel comped to the gray squirrel the red squirrel is so small and cute there was a big whale skull and a saber tooth tiger. 

At the York castle museum there was a Victorian street with shops that you could go in and out of there was also this sweet shop that you could go in  and by sweets and other stuff and a sweet place where it showed how to make things like cake and Turkish delight and stuff like that. here was also a shape game that times you to sort out 4 shapes and my one was 64.5 seconds but my sister did it in 21.02 seconds  and my Nan didn't do it so she did not get a time  but over all I won . I am the size of a chimney sweep from Victorian times and a toy place with a dream thing.

The last one we went to was the National Railway Museum we have been there before so it was not as exiting but it was still fun

I am queen 

me little warrior   

me with squirrel and the hurt pigeon that I called limp