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12th October 2020
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Why is a Green Room so-called?
7th Aug 2017
At the Bloomsbury Theatre we鈥檙e having some major renovation work done before our grand reopening in Autumn 2018. And while it鈥檚 really exciting to see our facilities given the royal treatment 鈥 which you can read more about here and here - it also means we say a fond farewell to certain relics from our past. One such piece of history is these crazy poster collage from the walls of our green room. 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We can only speculate as the debauchery that鈥檚 taken place here, and frankly that鈥檚 probably not for a family audience so we鈥檒l not dwell on it鈥t got us thinking though, why is a green room so-called? After a quick google search, we found there are loads of different theories including:Cockney rhyming slang for stage is 鈥淕reengage鈥滱ctors used to prepare for their performances in a room filled with plants. It was believed that the moisture was good for actors' voices.A red lamp is lit behind the scenes when recording or broadcasting is happening and a green lamp when the cameras are off or between takes. That last one sounds particularly unconvincing, especially because the earliest known use of the term 鈥榞reen room鈥 was in 1678 (before electric lamps), in Thomas Shadwell鈥檚 play A True Widow, which refers to "a green room behind the scenes". But it didn鈥檛 explain why it was a green room and if it was meant literally.[[{"fid":"5167","view_mode":"xl","fields":{"format":"xl","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Bloomsbury Theatre green room","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_caption[und][0][format]":"limited_html","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"xl","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Bloomsbury Theatre green room","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_caption[und][0][format]":"limited_html","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"}},"link_text":null,"attributes":{"height":"3333","width":"5000","class":"media-element file-xl"}}]][[{"fid":"5179","view_mode":"xl","fields":{"format":"xl","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Bloomsbury Theatre green room","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_caption[und][0][format]":"limited_html","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"xl","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Bloomsbury Theatre green room","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_caption[und][0][format]":"limited_html","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"}},"link_text":null,"attributes":{"height":"3456","width":"5184","class":"media-element file-xl"}}]]There didn鈥檛 seem to be a definitive answer anywhere we looked. So we decided to throw the question out there and see what answers we could get from some theatre friends of ours. The results are a mixed bag, but some of our favourites include: Actors backstage who were about to vomit were said to look 鈥榞reen鈥橤reen = youth. The green room was where understudies to major players/actors would wait for their chance to appear on stage.It was where a green sward (piece of fake grass) was stored to the side of the stage, used to signify an outdoor scene during the play.Some of these sound more credible, but we鈥檙e still no closer to knowing the truth! 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Bloomsbury Festival comes to 香港六合彩
4th Oct 2018
Something strange is happening at 香港六合彩 museums this Halloween鈥 Take your pick of not one, but two eerie evening events. Drinks included and dressing up strongly encouraged!Click here for a monstrous talk at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Click here for a ghoulish late opening at the Grant Museum of Zoology
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