Was The Ghost Theatre inspired by real-life Elizabethans?
It was inspired by a 1602 court case in which nobleman Henry Clifton accused the owner of the Blackfriars Theatre, Henry Evans, of kidnapping his son. The boy was snatched in the street to be a Blackfriars Boy, a child actor at the Blackfriars Theatre. The case intrigued me. Why were children being stolen?
What impression of Elizabethan London did you want to create?