The Hippodrome Cage – A play about the Greenwich Music Hall (And its cage for Rowdies!)

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It is a little known fact that there was once a cage at the back of the Greenwich Music Hall, back in the day when it used to be known as The Hippodrome. Many authors have pondered why there was a cage there at all and was it for people? if so, why would those people actually have allowed themselves to be put into a cage in the first place? Let’s take you back in time, back to the music hall era where we can meet some of those very same people and maybe learn a little more about it that you’d ever thought you would. A play about the Greenwich Music Hall.

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THE HIPPODROME CAGE – PLAY ABOUT THE GREENWICH MUSIC HALL

It is a little known fact that there was once a cage at the back of the Greenwich Music Hall, back in the day when it used to be known as The Hippodrome. Many authors have pondered why there was a cage there at all and was it for animals or for people? If so, why would those people actually have allowed themselves to be put into a cage in the first place? Let’s take you back in time, back to the music hall era where we can meet some of those very same people and maybe learn a little more about it that you’d ever thought you would. A play about the Greenwich Music Hall.

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Author: Neil Sharman

Type: One Act Play about the Greenwich Music Hall

Genre: Historical, Drama, Comedy – put simply, a story that has to be told

Cast: 6M 1F

Ages of the actors: Teens to adults

Suitable for: All ages to watch, teens up to perform

Length: 15-20 minutes. Please note: There are some music hall songs that can be performed as part of the play to add to be ambience.

Set: A theatre flat stands half painted. It’s going to show an English country garden. There’s a pile of papers on a desk and a candlestick telephone on a wooden table with matching wooden chairs.

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – getting into the characters that lived nearly 100 years ago, getting their mannerisms and accents right.

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Copyright © May 2022 Neil Sharman

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