Uh Hello and welcome to another episode of no such thing as a fish a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from the Hammersmith event of My name is Dan Schreiber.
I am sitting here with Anna Chajinsky Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin and once again We have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here We go starting with you James Okay,
my fact this week is that in the 18th century London plays written by David Garrick and Starring David Garrick would often be shown in theaters owned by David Garrick They would then be reviewed by David Garrick in Newspapers owned by David Garrick Amazing guy,
wasn't he he was a man of many talents apparently according to the Yeah,
I mean he ran the Drury Lane Theatre He was a great actor a lot of you will have heard of him He also had the st.
James's Chronicle and the public Advertiser in the Chronicle it said mr.
Garrick was most Extraordinarily accurate in every syllable which he uttered And his spelling is really good He was a really exciting character for theatre.
He was someone who brought in the old he championed Shakespeare But he also was looking at new technologies to make plays more interesting So for example when he played Hamlet he designed a wig that when the ghost of his father walked in stood up on edge Yeah,
he did change the way people acted weirdly so Before Garrick came along then for instance Spectators would be on the stage you guys would be up here with us like during the performance into mingling and he said Let's not do
that Definitely not do that Do
that He made actors come to rehearsals which really pissed them off He he abolished the practice of people audience members coming in at the interval for half price So people were coming in the middle of Hamlet and then spend the whole time going so who's that guy?
Why is she so upset?
But actually that was really really controversial wasn't it?
Riots because of that.
Yeah,
so when he decided against the half-price thing He came on stage and all the people in the pit So it used to be
that you have rich people in the top and you have really poor people in the pit or poorer people in the pit Let's hear it from the rich people up there They're all the same price So he came on stage and the people in the pit said
that he had to stop this half-price thing Yeah,
I'll bring it back.
I should say and he said he'd have to consult his business partner partner and he was booed off stage Was this business partner David Garrick?