Address: 21 New Globe Walk, Bankside, SE1 9DT Tube: London Bridge or Mansion House(both 10 Min walk) Tel: 020 7401 9919 Capacity 1,380 (seated) & 700 (Standing) Air Conditioning: No, it is an open air theatre! Wheelchair Access: Yes! Sound Amplification: Yes! Seating Plan Repertoire Schedule The Globe, which opened in 1997, is a reconstruction of an open-air theatre designed in 1599. The season normally runs from May to October and sometimes over the Christmas period. Tours of the theatre and an exhibition is also available. The Shakespeare's Globe is to open a second theatre - it has named its new 340 seat Indoor Jacobean Theatre The Sam Wanamaker Theatre, named after the organisation’s founder, American actor and director Sam Wanamaker. Performances open to the public in January 2014, and allow Shakespeare's Globe to present plays throughout the year. The theatre will have two tiers of galleried seating and a pit seating area and will be predominantly lit by candles. Click here What's Playing at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse!

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WHAT'S ON AT SHAKESPEARE'S GLOBE BLUE STOCKINGS By Jessica Swale Buy Tickets       Genre Drama Previews from 24 Aug 2013 Opens 29 Aug 2013 Booking to 11 Oct 2013 Closes 11 Oct 2013 Time See performance schedule link at end of listing! Performers Director John Dove Design Lighting Choreography Costume Sound Producer Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Synopsis Cambridge 1896, and Girton College, home to the country’s first female students, is an object of annoyance and derision to the rest of the university. The year’s intake of new women face economic difficulty, the distractions of men and radical politics, and the jaw-dropping prejudice that blights every aspect of academic life. Meanwhile, there looms the prospect of a controversial vote to decide: should these ‘blue stockings’ be allowed to graduate? B/O Price Length Other Info Performance Schedule GABRIEL by Samuel Adamson Buy Tickets       Genre Musical event Previews from 13 Jul 2013 Opens 19 Jul 2013 Booking to 18 Aug 2013 Closes 18 Aug 2013 Time See performance schedule link at end of listing! Performers Featuring English trumpet soloist, Alison Balsom. Director Dominic Dromgoole Design Lighting Choreography Costume Sound Producer Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Synopsis Musical and theatrical event. Featuring Purcell and Handel played by The English Concert, the play brings to life real and imagined characters including Mary II and Queen Anne, as well as the composers, patrons, musicians and audience of a vibrant and musical seventeenth century London.  B/O Price Length Other Info Performance Schedule HENRY VI PART 1 - HARRY THE SIXTH by William Shakespeare Buy Tickets       Genre Drama Previews from 23 Jul 2013 Opens 23 Jul 2013 Booking to 08 Sep 2013 Closes 08 Sep 2013 Time Only 8 performances: See performance schedule link at end of listing! Performers Director Nick Bagnall Design Lighting Choreography Costume Sound Producer Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Synopsis Following the death of Henry V, celebrated for having united England and subjugated France, divisions appear at the highest levels – first between those around the infant Henry VI, later between the two great factions in English politics: the houses of Lancaster and York. Only the young Lord Talbot, locked in combat with the bewitching and enigmatic Joan of Arc, seems capable of redeeming a divided and dishonoured kingdom. B/O Price Length Other Info Performance Schedule HENRY VI PART 2 - THE HOUSE OF YORK AND LANCASTER by William Shakespeare Buy Tickets       Genre Drama Previews from 24 Jul 2013 Opens 24 Jul 2013 Booking to 08 Sep 2013 Closes 08 Sep 2013 Time Only 4 performances: See performance schedule link at end of listing! Performers Director Nick Bagnall Design Lighting Choreography Costume Sound Producer Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Synopsis The saintly Henry VI is undermined by his nobles, especially the ambitious Richard, Duke of York, and by the Kentish rebellion, led by the charismatic Jack Cade, popular champion and savage critic of England’s social inequality. B/O Price Length Other Info Performance Schedule HENRY VI PART 3 - THE TRUE TRAGEDY OF THE DUKE OF YORK by William Shakespeare Buy Tickets       Genre Drama Previews from 24 Jul 2013 Opens 24 Jul 2013 Booking to 08 Sep 2013 Closes 08 Sep 2013 Time Only 7 performances: See performance schedule link at end of listing! Performers Director Nick Bagnall Design Lighting Choreography Costume Sound Producer Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Synopsis A bloody power struggle opens up between the King’s party, led by the fearsome Queen Margaret, and the Yorkists, led first by Richard, then his sons Edward and ‘that lump of foul deformity’, Richard of Gloucester. B/O Price Length Other Info Performance Schedule INDIAN TEMPEST - Part of Globe to Globe by William Shakespeare Buy Tickets       Genre Drama Previews from 29 Jul 2013 Opens 29 Jul 2013 Booking to 03 Aug 2013 Closes 03 Aug 2013 Time Only 6 performances: See performance schedule link at end of listing! Performers Director Design Lighting Choreography Costume Sound Producer Shakespeare's Globe Theatre / Globe to Globe / Footsbarn, Allier, France Synopsis Performed in English, Malayalam, French and Sanskrit. Footsbarn return to the Globe with their heady mix of street theatre, circus, mime, shadow play and carnival. With Indian and European actors and a strong flavour of Kerala, Indian Tempest brings together magic and illusion, desire and romantic love, dreams and ambition, as well as treachery and torment – all with more than a dash of comedy. B/O Price Length Other Info Performance Schedule KING LEAR Belarus Free Theatre - Part of Globe to Globe by William Shakespeare Buy Tickets       Genre Drama Previews from 23 Sep 2013 Opens 23 Sep 2013 Booking to 28 Sep 2013 Closes 28 Sep 2013 Time Only 6 performances: See performance schedule link at end of listing! Performers Director Design Lighting Choreography Costume Sound Producer Belarus Free Theatre Synopsis Performed by Belarus Free Theatre in Belarusian with scene synopses in English B/O Price Length Other Info Performance Schedule LIGHTNING CHILD, THE By Che Walker, Songs by Arthur Darvill. A remix Of Euripides’ The Bacchae Buy Tickets       Genre Drama Previews from 14 Sep 2013 Opens 18 Sep 2013 Booking to 12 Oct 2013 Closes 12 Oct 2013 Time See performance schedule link at end of listing! Performers Director Matthew Dunster Design Paul Wills Lighting Choreography Costume Sound Producer Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Synopsis In ancient Thebes – or is it contemporary London? – worshippers gather to join the orgiastic rites honouring Dionysus. Only the disapproving, woman-hating Pentheus seeks to put a stop to the fun. Elsewhere, in this ancient/modern city, the addicts Drax and Shug and the musician Louise and her flatmate Antonia are drawn towards their own forms of retribution. B/O Price Length Other Info Performance Schedule MACBETH by William Shakespeare Buy Tickets       Genre Drama Previews from 22 Jun 2013 Opens 04 Jul 2013 Booking to 13 Oct 2013 Closes 13 Oct 2013 Time See performance schedule link at end of listing! Performers Joseph Millson (Macbeth), Samantha Spiro (Lady Macbeth), Bette Bourne (Porter) , Billy Boyd (Banquo), Gawn Grainger (Duncan), Moyo Akande, Geoff Aymer, Stuart Bowman, Jonathan Chambers, Philip Cumbus, Harry Hepple, Jess Murphy, Colin Ryan, Cat Simmons, Finty Williams. Director Eve Best Design Mike Britton Lighting Choreography Costume Sound Producer Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Synopsis When three witches tell Macbeth that he is destined to occupy the throne of Scotland, he and his wife choose to become the instruments of their fate and to kill the first man standing in their path, the virtuous King Duncan. But to maintain his position, Macbeth must keep on killing – first Banquo, his old comrade-in-arms; then, as the atmosphere of guilt and paranoia thickens, anyone who seems to threaten his tyrant’s crown. B/O Price Length Other Info This production will employ Renaissance costumes and staging Performance Schedule MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, A by William Shakespeare Buy Tickets   Review    Genre Comedy Previews from 24 May 2013 Opens 30 May 2013 Booking to 12 Oct 2013 Closes 12 Oct 2013 Time See performance schedule link at end of listing! Performers Michelle Terry (Titania), John Light (Oberon), Olivia Ross (Hermia), Sarah MacRae (Helena), Joshua Silver (Demetrius), Luke Thompson (Lysander), Matthew Tennyson (Puck), Huss Garbiya, Tala Gouveia, Tom Lawrence ,Christopher Logan, Molly Logan, Fergal McElherron, Edward Peel, Pearce Quigley, Stephanie Racine,  Director Dominic Dromgoole Design Jonathan Fensom Lighting Choreography Costume Sound Producer Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Synopsis Hermia loves Lysander and Helena loves Demetrius – but Demetrius is supposed to be marrying Hermia… When the Duke of Athens tries to enforce the marriage, the lovers take refuge in the woods and wander into the midst of a dispute between the king and queen of the fairies. B/O Price Length 3hrs Other Info This production will employ Renaissance costumes and staging Performance Schedule TAMING OF THE SHREW, THE by William Shakespeare Buy Tickets       Genre Comedy Previews from 10 Jun 2013 Opens 10 Jun 2013 Booking to 21 Jun 2013 Closes 21 Jun 2013 Time Only 7 performances: See performance schedule link at end of listing! Performers An all-female cast Director Joe Murphy Design Lighting Choreography Costume Sound Producer Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Synopsis Two wealthy sisters in Padua must be married off. The modest, demure Bianca has no shortage of suitors, but who on earth will take the wild, ungovernable, ‘shrewish’ Katherina? Perhaps the gold-digging Petruchio, as maddeningly strongwilled and perverse as Katherina herself, will be equal to the task of bullying her to the altar. B/O Price Length Other Info Small Scale Production. All-female cast . Performance Schedule TEMPEST, THE by William Shakespeare Buy Tickets   Review    Genre Drama Previews from 23 Apr 2013 Opens 02 May 2013 Booking to 18 Aug 2013 Closes 18 Aug 2013 Time See performance schedule link at end of listing! Performers Roger Allam (Prospero), Colin Morgan (Ariel), Jessie Buckley (Miranda), Jason Baughan, Sam Cox, Pip Donaghy, Trevor Fox, James Garnon, Peter Hamilton-Dyer, Joshua James, William Mannering, Sarah Sweeney, Amanda Wilkin. Director Jeremy Herrin Design Max Jones Lighting Choreography Costume Sound Producer Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Synopsis Prospero, Duke of Milan, usurped and exiled by his own brother, holds sway over an enchanted island. He is comforted by his daughter Miranda and served by his spirit Ariel and his deformed slave Caliban. When Prospero raises a storm to wreck this perfidious brother and his confederates on the island, his long contemplated revenge at last seems within reach. B/O Price Length 2hrs 40mins Other Info This production will employ Renaissance costumes and staging. Performance Schedule

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