The Shakespeare North Playhouse

Tim Keenan is Senior Lecturer in Drama at Liverpool Hope University, UK. He is an early modernist with a focus on seventeenth-century theatre production.

Part 1 Origins and Development 1. Why Build a Replica Theatre in Knowsley? The Story of a Journey from a Vision to Reality 2. Making the Shakespeare North Playhouse: Paradoxes, Entanglements, and Fluidities 3. The Shakespeare North Playhouse: A Story of Passion, Policy, and Pragmatism 4. Interview with Nicholas Helm, Architect of the Shakespeare North Playhouse Part 2 Buildings and Spaces 5. Chasing the 90%: Establishing the Facts about the Cockpit-in-Court 6. Past Theatres and New Spaces: Shifting Meanings for Actors and Audiences 7. Interview with Jim Warren, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the American Shakespeare Center, 1988–2017 and Current Founding Artistic Director of the American Globe Center 8. Dealing with the Elizabethan Edifice Complex Part 3 Practices and Performance 9. Finding Our Light 10. The Accidental Time Traveller 11. Interview with Ben Crystal, SNP Associate Artist and Independent Author/Actor/Creative Producer/Theatre Practitioner 12. "Making the Invisible Visible": The Shakespeare North Playhouse as Replica Theatre and Research Instrument in PaR Part 4 Community Arts and Education 13. Commedia in the Community 14. Community Considerations for Shakespeare North Playhouse 15. Cultivating Young People’s Connections to Shakespeare North Playhouse 16. "Shakespeare on Your Doorstep": Opportunities for Inclusion and Participation in the Educational and Community Work of Shakespeare North Playhouse