British Actors Theatre abducted children to make them actors

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Employee College of St. Catherine Dr. Bart van Es is an expert on Elizabethan literature. He recently found a disturbing document proving that once roamed the streets of London catchers children.



They were caught on the streets of the boys, but they are not transported in the prison, and in local theaters. Since the late 1500s, some small theaters and all his performances were staged with the participation of boys that are constantly in need of young actors.

Potential actors grabbed on the way to school or work and power were forced to perform on stage, and those who refused to play, was severely beaten. Surprisingly, these villains had a legitimate right to hit children: Queen Elizabeth theater-goers gave permission to take children off the streets as much as possible.

Officially, the children had to work in the church choir, who sang for the royal family, but in fact the "choir" was sort of a password. The owners of theaters were untouchable for the police and, in fact, could take even noble sons.

For example, in 1600, the year the people of the theater "Blackfriars" kidnapped 13-year-old Thomas Clifton. When his father, Henry Clifton came to his son, he saw how to manage the theater threatened to torture to death if he did not agree to act.

In this story, there is a dark side: many boys were subjected to sexual violence. Most often, the audience in the hall (mostly men) watched on stage in almost total darkness, adult pedophile rapes a child. The performances involving child sex was much more than in the productions involving only adults.

via factroom.ru