| Egeon's trial takes place at the front of the stage, with the old man standing among the groundlings defending himself from threatened execution. |
| Standing amid the groundlings in front of the stage was a tall, grey, benignly smiling man. |
| While the groundlings of the Bard's day had to stand, at Prince's Island you can sprawl out on the grass. |
| The Tempest may be in typically oblique Shakespearian fashion a salute to the groundlings. |
| We are regaled with tales of peregrines hovering over the groundlings at the Globe theatre, peregrines nesting atop the Battersea Power Station. |
| Seated in the theatre's lower gallery, I found myself distracted, not for the first time, by the endless gropings of the groundlings. |
