Shoreditch

Shoreditch is an inner city district in the East End of London, Central London in the London Borough of Hackney and lies immediately to the north and north east of the City of London. Shoreditch High Street railway station partly in Shoreditch but mostly in the Bethnal Green area of Tower Hamlets. As a result, sometimes adjacent areas of Bethnal Green are informally referred to as part of Shoreditch - wikipedia

In 1576, James Burbage built the first playhouse in England, known as "The Theatre", on the site of the Priory (commemorated today by a plaque on Curtain Road, and excavated in 2008, by MoLAS). Some of Shakespeare's (William Shakespeare) plays were performed here and at the nearby Curtain Theatre, built the following year and 200ydm to the south (marked by a commemorative plaque in Hewett Street off Curtain Road). It was here that Shakespeare's ''Romeo and Juliet'' gained "Curtain plaudits", and where ''Henry V (Henry V (play))'' was performed within "this wooden O". Shakespeare's Company moved the timbers of "The Theatre" to Southwark at the expiration of the lease in 1599, in order to construct The Globe (Globe Theatre). The Curtain continued performing plays in Shoreditch until at least 1627.