Year 11 Drama 'The Playhouse' by Kristen Doherty

On a school excursion to the Globe Theatre, five wayward students slip away from their teacher and find themselves backstage. Unable to resist the lure of the costume rack, they try some on, but are spotted and chased into the tiring house, where a portrait of Shakespeare proudly dominates the space. The Globe’s motto emblazoned on the frame

'Totus Mundus Agit Histrionem' - The Whole World is a Playhouse.

The teens recite the iconic words and are suddenly thrust back-in-time to Shakespeare’s original Globe Theatre in 1599, where they are mistaken for actors, costume mistresses, nobility and groundlings (stinkards) The befuddled students are engulfed in the very first production of ‘As You Like It’ and thrust out on the street of Ye Ole London Town. The group need to find their way back to each other and Shakespeare’s portrait if they are ever to return to their own time

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