Christ's Hospital
The most famous of the Blue‐Coat or charity schools, was founded in London under a charter of Edward VI as a school for poor children, in buildings that before the ...
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Alexandra F. Johnston
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
...wider social function with numerous charitable endeavours not unlike a modern service club. Its playmaking activity was limited to the production of the Creed play every ten years. The major function of most confraternities all over Europe was to provide social services such as hospitals, orphanages, hostels, poor relief, and much else that made life in the major cities tolerable. They also conducted regular religious observances such as funeral masses for members and maintained chantry chapels. The mimetic or ceremonial activity—a large episodic biblical play ...
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The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre
...space’ by means of the use of shallow galleries, returned along the side walls to form a strong visual link with the action on the stage, thus strengthening the performance and the audience's enjoyment of it. One of the first designs to adopt this idiom was the theatre at Christ's Hospital, Horsham, Sussex ( 1974 ), the nearest historical precedent for which is the square-plan, galleried Fortune Theatre, London ( 1600 ). The galleries are supported on timber posts and have open timber balustrades. In 1977 the Cottesloe Theatre (conceived by Iain Mackintosh...
