copperbadge:

laughingacademy:

deliriumcrow:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

minerfromtarn:

costlyblood:

likeniobe:

a whole theatre

PLEASE LET THIS BE REAL

@thefingerfuckingfemalefury @cblgblog @chiribomb

Part of me thinks “Surely this isn’t true” but another part of me is like “This is not the weirdest thing I’ve ever heard”

There’s part of me that can’t possibly believe this is real, bit I’ve read parts of the Old Bailey records, and this is … not exactly normal, but not that far from it. People stole lots of shit, and drunk theater people are a very odd lot.

It sounds like a Leverage/Drunk History mashup.

“You guys, lesh…let’s go steal the Globe. We’re gonna steal the Globe Theatre.”

@copperbadge, thoughts?

@tzikeh says the theft itself is well known, we just now have evidence Shakespeare participate in it, to which I say, a bounty of wealth for the first person who writes a Shakespearean heist novel.

Yeah, I think I recall hearing about this long ago; the way I
heard it, it was sort of like if, on the opening night of The Cradle Will Rock,
Welles and company had just carried off the closed theatre bit by bit and moved
it across NYC, instead of walking with the audience (but no set) to another
theatre and performing there.

Nice to know it’s been confirmed though.

Oh also ? There’s supposed to have been this incident in the
original run of H.M.S. Pinafore where an unlicensed rival production of the
show staged a fire alarm and tried to stampede the audience and steal the set,
but Little Buttercup led the cast in fighting them off.

Live theatre can be very exciting.