#globe theatre
On this day in 1611 the first production of The Tempest was performed by the King’s Men at Whitehall Palace before James I.
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was in london a week ago and i saw a globe theatre production company of macbeth doing their vocal warmups and they were standing on stage and rhythmically shouting FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! at the top of their lungs in perfect unison for thirty seconds. so thats whats going on in the globe theatre these days. just thought yall should know
It’s what Billy Shakeshacks would have wanted
Ophelia’s Soliloquy in Act 3, Scene 1
“Oh, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!
The courtier’s, soldier’s, scholar’s, eye, tongue, sword;
Th’ expectancy and rose of the fair state,
The glass of fashion and the mold of form,
Th’ observed of all observers — quite, quite down!
And I — of ladies most deject and wretched
That sucked the honey of his music vows —
Now see that noble and most sovereign reason
Like sweet bells jangled out of tune and harsh,
That unmatched form and feature of blown youth
Blasted with ecstasy. Oh, woe is me
T’have seen what I have seen, see what I see!
[Exit Ophelia, Enter Claudius and Polonius.]”
(1st painting, John William Waterhouse - Ophelia)
(2nd painting, Francis Abernathy’s - Ophelia)
Theo David (Claudio), Simon Prast (Leonato), Mark Dickinson (Don Pedro) and Asalemo Tofete (Benedick) sing Sigh No More at the final performance of Much Ado About Nothing at the Pop Up Globe
Curtain call jig of Othello, after Theo David’s first performance understudying the role of Othello [x]
Regan Taylor was indisposed for the matinee on Tuesday the 23rd of January, so Theo David (Soldier in Othello, Claudio in Much Ado) went on in his place as Othello. He is only 21 years old and absolutely blew the audience away. There is no official system of understudies at the Pop Up Globe, so many of these rare performances are done without notice or rehearsal. But they are always done with such professionalism and pure talent. Bravo to Theo. [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x]
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Kieran Mortell (Dogberry) brings the King’s Company onstage for closing night of Much Ado About Nothing at the Pop Up Globe
After performing to over 450,000 people in just two years, the Pop Up Globe is coming to Sydney! For six weeks only, starting September 5th, the Pop Up Globe will take Sydney by storm with four plays from their recent Auckland season - A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, and The Comedy of Errors.
You can find out more on their website. Tickets are on sale now!
We’re delighted to announce that after performing to 450,000 people in just two years, Pop-up Globe, the smash-hit theatre experience, is coming to Sydney!
Register now be the first to receive all season information. http://popupglobe.com.au
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popupglobe: Reason 5,456 to see The Comedy of Errors. Double trouble! #popupglobe#thecomedyoferrors @tom.a.clarke (viainstagram)
When Beatrice dragged this audience member onstage so that she could hide behind him in the gulling scene, he immediately started quoting Snout from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. “In this same interlude it doth befall/That I, one Snout by name, present a wall;…”
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Richard II in rehearsal.
Beset by problems at home and abroad, a capricious king is forced to relinquish his ‘hollow crown’. As his supporters abandon him and his power trickles away, Richard reflects with startling eloquence on the disintegration of his status and identity.
Adjoa Andoh and Lynette Linton direct the first ever company of women of colour in a Shakespeare play on a major UK stage, in a post-Empire reflection on what it means to be British in the light of the Windrush anniversary and as we leave the European Union.
Richard II opens in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse on 22 February.
Photography by Ingrid Pollard
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