![]() Their new wealth allowed the King's Men to overcome major adversity: when the Globe Theatre burned down in 1613 (see below), the company could afford an expensive rebuild, replacing the vulnerable thatch roof with tile. Adding the Blackfriars to the Globe should have allowed the King's Men to at least double their income from public performances. The cheapest admission at the Blackfriars equalled the most expensive at the Globe the most expensive seat at the Blackfriars cost five times as much as its Globe counterpart. to 6 d.) tickets at the Blackfriars ranged from sixpence to two shillings sixpence (6 d. Globe tickets ranged from a penny to sixpence (1 d. Yet the ticket prices at the Blackfriars were five to six times higher than those at the Globe. This can be compared with the maximum capacity at the Globe Theatre of 2500 to 3000. The Blackfriars hall is thought to have been 66 by 46 feet (20 by 14 metres), including the stage its maximum capacity was likely in the hundreds of spectators. It allowed the company to perform year round instead of only in clement weather. ![]() The acquisition of the Blackfriars represented an enormous advantage for the company. (The two non-actors involved in the arrangement were Cuthbert Burbage, Richard's brother, and Thomas Evans, agent for theatre manager Henry Evans.) Sly, however, died soon after, and his share was split among the other six. The Blackfriars Theatre, owned by the Burbage family, was organised into a partnership in August that year, with five of the seven shares going to members of the King's Men – Shakespeare, Burbage, Heminges, Condell, and Sly. The King's Men toured the countryside they were in Coventry in late October. Nine performances at Court marked the winter of 1606-07, including a performance of 26 December of King Lear the following winter, 1607–08, saw thirteen Court appearances.įrom July to December 1608 the theatres were closed due to plague. They also toured that summer, and were in Oxford at the end of July, among other stops. The company gave ten Court performances in the winter of 1605–06 and, unusually, three Court performances in the summer of 1606, during a state visit by the King of Denmark. Beeston was almost certainly another former apprentice.) (Phillips also leaves a bequest to Christopher Beeston, as a former "servant". In his will, Phillips left legacies to Shakespeare, Burbage, and eight other members of the company, plus two apprentices, and £5 to the hired men "of the company which I am of". May 1605 brought the death of Augustine Phillips. The new sharers included John Lowin, Alexander Cooke, and Nicholas Tooley. The King's Men needed more men and in 1604 the number of sharers was increased from eight or nine, ten, eleven and twelve. This represented a workload twice as great as was typical under Elizabeth. In their first winter season, between December 1603 and February 1604 the company performed eight times at Court and eleven times in their second, from November 1604 through February 1605, including seven plays by Shakespeare and two by Ben Jonson. Times as “the definitive Shakespeare theatre in Southern California.Main article: King's Men personnel To 1610 Times to be “well-established as a summer mainstay for discriminating fans of outdoor theater,” and a company that “far exceeds typical expectations.” Kingsmen has been awarded the Certificate of Excellence in the Arts from the City of Thousand Oaks, Youth Organization of the Year award from the Conejo Valley Activities Corporation, and the Conejo Las Virgenes Future Foundation CLvFFie Award, presented to the most community-oriented individuals and organizations in the area.ĭiligently striving to serve our community for the past twenty years through the works of this wonderful playwright, Kingsmen was humbled to be recognized by the L. ![]() Known for consistent artistic excellence in both traditional and more conceptual stagings, Kingsmen has been declared by the L. Under the stars in picturesque Kingsmen Park, the company presents two of Shakespeare’s plays each summer in its annual, six-week, mainstage season and mounts an educational production that tours Southern California schools each winter. Located just north of Los Angeles in Thousand Oaks, California, Kingsmen is the professional theatre company in residence at California Lutheran University. Since its inception in 1997, The Kingsmen Shakespeare Company has been dedicated to presenting professional programs and performances of the works of William Shakespeare for the education and entertainment of people of all ages.
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