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Touring Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts
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" This mock up is this is the rose footprint fits that we call it the footprint because it is the full Britain. Of the thing itself -- when -- built it will be just a little larger than this. But not very not sort of course going up -- going up us. Has told us about that building -- that can be the same I had to be what something I noticed that believes that picturesque it is isn't it it's an old farmhouse carriage bond. And it's probably the oldest building on the property that we are going to convert it into a museum's basement and into a theater."
" And into dressing rooms for the rose theatre itself when it gets it right there are so many picturesque ruins in the Berkshire arms. -- Let's get closer to this. You were telling us that you've been experimenting with the yes building materials would have been used in the sixteenth and yes because obviously the branches."
" In the year 2000 people five is very different climate could. Then then the London way back in the sixteenth century. So we need to build a thatch and different classes so that you can see how it's going to weather I -- We can't build it exactly like they had it because that we does that definitively -- it. And at different position on the globe and so where do you get thatch craftsmen up up up up from Plymouth plantation in Atlanta else yes yes that."
" I believe god where we've re create our Plymouth and yet not as if god knows where they've re created many early buildings from -- the 1600 yes."
" Let me introduce you to Mel -- Mel came to us from the globe in England oh and he helped build the globe that. He came over he had lesbian acts as well I. You know he's -- of activity you're an actor builder. Actor friend despite the."
" Kind of builder actor yeah and how bad."
" as the thatch something that you pick up over here in America are you have to bring this stuff over from England. Actually this is something one of the -- one of the the matters that we were experimenting with we actually grew this particular -- which is rye. Who eat a hot from seed. Over Altamont New York and former head gentleman and a called Everett or how -- decided he wanted to grow force we have grown this from seed about the plaster that's being used and as -- there you get. Some samples yes it is it mud and bottler. There to waddle and daughter went through that I know from. This is lath and plaster. One of the things that was concluded about the globe theatre. Was that they wouldn't have used -- involved in the interest in the inner city. Because the materials for the waffled just simply wasn't available oh OK so they would have hand split the labs. And done that system as opposed to Laughlin daughter what we've done here is Tina mentioned earlier is that we've experimented with four different mixes. Of the -- to John which is called lime plaster basics of which are just simply sand. Lime -- And animal hair and that this particular panel both inside and -- upper and lower is the original mix that we would have that we used on the globe. And that we would like to use on the roads right well it seems like every ambitious project you figure a couple of years at least right absolutely and I'm not a bag over 600 architects."