ELIZABETHAN STAGE IN SANDERS

The Elizabethan stage, which will be used in Forbes-Robertson's presentations of "Hamlet" in Sanders Theatre on April 24, 25, and 26, has arrived and is now being installed under the direction of Professor G. P. Baker '87 and Dean H. L. Warren of the School of Architecture. The stage is remarkable in that the actors will be almost completely surrounded by the "audience." On the left and right in boxes on the stage will be Elizabethan nobles, while the pit, or what is generally known as the floor, of Sanders Theatre will be occupied by Elizabethan spectators. A strip of "sky" has been painted along the top of Sanders Theatre to render the Elizabethan illusion more perfect, for a theatre of that epoch had no roof above the central portion, the only covering being over the stage and the galleries.

This stage was first constructed in 1893 for the presentation of Ben Jonson's "Silent Woman." It was afterwards remodelled at great expense and is now the most nearly perfect Elizabethan stage in existence. The last time it was used was in 1907, when Made Adams acted "Twelfth Night."