A major plus is that you're acting with other actresses, because-and this has never changed in my lifetime-contemporary dramatists don't find women interesting.
During last year's festival, hundreds of dramatists and artists from various fields such as literature, music, dance and architecture gathered together to share their ideas and works.
Shakespeare's troupe, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, became the resident group of players and Shakespeare effectively the dramatist in residence at the Globe, a large theatre which could fit about 3,000 spectators.
We are amazed today at the mere number of plays produced, as well as by the number of dramatists writing at the same time for this London of two hundred thousand inhabitants.
With the subsiding of the plague and the mourning rituals for Queen Elizabeth completed, in May 1604 the celebrated dramatist and many of his actors would accompany James as he made his first procession through London.