Category: Shakespeare Globe

Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre “Twelfth Night”

North American Fall Tour 2003

“Bliss, sheer bliss” “I can think of no better way of starting the British summer”

The Daily Telegraph UCLA Live, Los Angeles October 22 8pm October 23 8pm October 24 8pm October 25 2pm, 8pm October 26 1pm, 7pm October 28 8pm October 29 9pm October 30 8pm October 31 8pm November 1 2pm, 8pm November 2 1pm, 7pm Minneapolis Guthrie World Stage Series November 6 10.30am, 7.30pm November 7 7.30pm November 8 1pm, 7.30pm November 9 1pm Theater Square, Pittsburgh November 12 7.30pm November 13 11am, 7.30pm November 14 7.30pm November 15 1pm, 7.30pm November 16 1pm University Musical Society, Michigan November 18 8pm November 19 8pm November20 8pm November 21 8pm November 22 2pm, 8pm November 23 1pm, 8pm Chicago Shakespeare Theater November 26 2pm, 7.30pm November 28 2pm, 8pm November 29 2pm, 8pm November 30 2pm December 2 7.30pm December 3 2pm, 7.30pm December 4 7.30pm December 5 8pm December 6 2pm, 8pm December 7 2pm December 9 7.30pm December 10 2pm, 7.30pm December 11 7.30pm December 12 8pm December 13 2pm, 8pm December 14 2pm

SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE ON TOUR

In fall 2011 Shakespeare’s Globe brings its unique On Tour program to the US, reviving a hit from summers 2009 and 2010: The Comedy of Errors. The travelling players breathe new life into one of Shakespeare’s best loved comedies with a stripped down style, delivering theatre at its bawdy, brilliant best. Shakespeare’s Globe on Tour reinvents Elizabethan touring theatre for the 21st century. Using a stage design inspired by images from the time, the Globe’s travelling players recreate all the fun and excitement of early theatre. Just as with the old King’s Men, they don’t perform in theatres but in a plethora of picturesque and historically resonant settings.

“The Globe was born out of a touring company culture, and that culture remained vital to it while it flourished. We are delighted to be exploring again the tradition of taking Shakespeare into non-theatrical spaces.”

Dominic Dromgoole, Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe

FROM THE AUDIENCES:

‘The performance is one I will never forget’

….Rebecca Day, Leeds Castle, Kent.

‘It was truly fabulous. So stimulating, it almost changes you as a person’

Sylvia Hope, Richmond, Yorks. FROM THE PRESS:

“…bursting with physical energy and touching realism, passion, intelligence and promise.”

The Scotsman

“… with tight, fluent team-work and much nifty doubling, the play is brought to muscular life by just eight actors.”

The Independent

FROM THE VENUES:

“An unmitigated success!”

Victoria Wallace, Managing Director of Leeds Castle

“We really enjoyed having [the show] at Lydiard Park. Fantastic performance and lots of excellent feedback from the audience.”

Emma Valentine, Lydiard Park, Swindon

ABOUT THE PLAY

Take one pair of estranged twins (both called Antipholus) and one pair of twin servants (both called Dromio), keep them in ignorance of each other and throw them into a city with a reputation for sorcery and you have the chief ingredients for theatrical chaos. One Antipholus is given gold in the street and invited to dinner by a woman who thinks she’s his wife; the other is barred from his own house and rebuffed by his jeweller. Caught in between, the Dromios are soundly beaten for disobeying each other’s orders. Fast-paced, hilarious and seemingly irreverent, the young William Shakespeare explores themes in this comedy that recur again and again in his later work; mistaken identity, coincidence and the importance of family.

Available for US touring November/December 2011

SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE THEATRE From London presents ANNE BOLEYN

A New Play by Howard Brenton

Directed by John Dove

Hunting through an old chest, the newly crowned James I discovers the controversial legacy of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s notorious second wife. Time jumps back 70 years, when the witty and flirtatious Anne was in love with Henry, but also with the most dangerous ideas of her day. Conspiring with the exiled William Tyndale, she plots to make England Protestant – forever. A celebration of a great English heroine, Anne Boleyn leaps between generations to reveal the debt the outrageous but scholarly James owed to Anne when he shrewdly reconciled England’s religious factions by creating his common, ‘authorized’ Bible. Anne Boleyn returns to the Globe after a sell-out run in 2010. Award-winning playwright Howard Brenton’s previous work includes In Extremis at Shakespeare’s Globe. From the director of the 2005 hit ‘original practice’ production of Measure for Measure starring Mark Rylance. **** ‘The Tudor pack at their most snarling, scheming, ribald, pleasure-seeking and gaily entertaining.’ Daily Telegraph ****  Bulges with theatrical vitality.’ The Guardian **** ‘Howard Brenton's lively new drama illuminates the Globe in John Dove’s exuberant production.’ Time Out **** ‘John Dove’s elegant production with period chamber music is rich, invigorating, historical drama.’ Daily Mail **** 'Absorbing.' Independent on Sunday **** 'Engaging.' The Times **** 'Compelling.' Financial Times Available for US touring Fall 2011

Measure for Measure

“Yet whereas some bellow and others whisper; these underwhelm and those overact, Rylance, as Duke Vincentio, pitches it cleverly.  He knows when a little broad humour and stage play will not go amiss, but never allows the focus to wander from the essential dilemma of a lax leader witnessing the unfortunate sequence of events that dominoes outwards from his leniency.” – The Evening Standard “This is one of Shakespeare’s strangest and most successful works, a farce which is also a meditation on death, a romantic comedy about sexual repression.  Every detail of this production does full justice to the text.  And no one objects that the Globe represents the greatest feat of theatrical nostalgia ever attempted.  Instead you wonder how you ever did without it.” – The Spectator “Rylance is very funny and appealing in his interpretation of the Duke as a lonely, amiable klutz, jumpy with embarrassment at his own stratagems.” – The Independent VENUES Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis – October 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, November 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 2005 www.guthrietheater.org Freud Playhouse, UCLA, Los Angeles – November 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 2005 www.uclalive.org Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia – November 30, December 1, 2, 3, 4, 2005 www.pennpresents.org O’Reilly Theatre, (Pittsburgh Cultural Trust), Pittsburgh – December 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 2005 www.phharts.org St Ann’s Warehouse, (Theatre for a New Audience, Arts at St Ann’s in association with 2Luck Concepts), - Dec 20, 2005 – Jan 1, 2006 www.artsatstanns.org

* * * * * ‘Christopher Luscombe’s production brims with humanity, ingenuity and irresistible charm.’ Sunday Telegraph * * * * ‘A wonderfully warm comedy, stuffed to bursting with belly laughs.’ The Times ‘Christopher Luscombe directs a sunny, funny and palpably affectionate production, cleverly designed by Janet Bird… the feel-good hit of the summer.’ Daily Telegraph * * * * ‘Good Queen Bess herself would surely have beamed at this delightful take on that royal command script, quite the best and freshest work I’ve seen at the Globe.’ Evening Standard * * * * ‘The Globe has a hit on its hands… ’A very enjoyable, teasing night out.’ Guardian Imagining that Mistress Ford and Mistress Page have each fallen for him, the fat knight Sir John Falstaff decides to seduce them both, as much for their husbands’ money as for their personal charms. Wise to the old rogue’s tricks, the women turn the tables on him with a series of humiliating assignations and a very damp, extremely smelly laundry basket. US Performances: The Broad Stage Santa Monica College October 15 – 24, 2010 http://www.thebroadstage.com Michael Schimmel Center Pace University New York City October 28 - November 7, 2010 http://www.pace.edu/page.cfm?doc_id=26252

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