Christmas at Shakespeare’s Globe 2011 20.10.11 This Christmas and New Year Shakespeare’s Globe will celebrate the winter season with a range of activities and entertainment across the site. Visitors can explore Shakespeare’s London with a visit to the exhibition and theatre tour throughout the festive season and enjoy the annual A Concert for Winter. As well as these activities Swan at the Globe will keep the winter chills away with a selection of food and drink served within the renowned bar and brasserie, and Shakespeare’s Globe shop will offer Christmas shoppers a unique range of gift ideas and decorations.
A Concert for Winter will take place on Thursday 8 December at 1pm. Groups from across Southwark will come together to make the Globe stage their own at Globe Education’s annual event. A Concert for Winter will this season provide a banquet of music, song and festivity which will celebrate the work and creativity of Southwark community groups and schools. Tickets are free, but must be booked in advance by emailing community@shakespearesglobe.com. The popular ‘Frost Fair’ exhibition will return to Shakespeare’s Globe Exhibition from 1 December 2011 to 2 January 2012. This fascinating and temporary exhibition showcases traditional London winters from Elizabethan Frost Fairs to Christmas’ of the late 1800’s. Frost Fair’s were held on the th
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tideway of London’s River Thames between the 15 and 19 Centuries when the river froze over. The Frost Fair looks at this great tradition - where streets of stalls and booths stretched from bank to bank offering gifts, food and clothing, and entertainments made their way on to the river including bearbaiting, skating and puppet shows. Open throughout the year, Shakespeare’s Globe Exhibition and Tour offers the perfect day out for the whole family. The Exhibition presents the rich story of the Globe and brings Shakespeare’s world to life using modern technology and traditional crafts. Travelling through interactive displays, visitors explore areas of costume, music and special effects, and are invited to take part in a fascinating halfhour tour of the Globe Theatre. The tour takes visitors through the auditorium with Guide-storytellers recreating colourful stories of the 1599 Globe, the reconstruction process in the 1990s, and how the ‘wooden O’ works as an imaginative and experimental space today.
This Christmas a special Activity Weekend will be held on the 17 and 18 December. Included in the price of a standard exhibition ticket, families can enjoy a range of activities including live sword fighting demonstrations, Elizabethan costume dressing and printing demonstrations using a full-size recreation th
of a 17 Century printing press.
Shakespeare’s Globe Shop is open to the public daily between 10am to 6pm and offers a vast selection of merchandise relating to one of Britain’s most loved playwrights and unique Christmas present ideas. The shops fresh approach to design ensures that the products on sale are exclusive to the Globe and specially commissioned ranges offer customers modern interpretations that celebrate some of the best known lines ever written.
Ends EDITORS NOTES For further information contact Rebecca Storey, Senior Press & PR Officer for Shakespeare’s Globe on 020 7902 1492 or email Rebecca.s@shakespearesglobe.com.
Globe Exhibition and Tour: Winter opening times Nov 2011 – Feb 2012, 10am – 5pm (Tours depart on the hour & half hour between 10.30am – 5pm) 2012 Shakespeare’s Globe will present Globe to Globe, a multi-lingual Shakespeare festival to celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Over the course of six weeks, starting on 23 April 2012, all of Shakespeare’s 37 plays will be performed in a different language, by different companies from around the world. Indoor Jacobean Theatre: Shakespeare’s Globe is currently fundraising to build an indoor Jacobean theatre, opening in 2013. For further information please visit www.shakespearesglobe.com/indoorjacobeantheatre Globe Education presents a programme of workshops, lectures, events and staged readings all year round. From October to December Globe Education presents ‘Shakespeare and The Banquet of the Senses’. For more information this programme of events call Globe Education 020 7902 1430 or visit www.globe-education.org. Globe Shop stocks a variety of products, including theatre season specific merchandise. Shakespeare's Globe is a registered charity and all profits from sales go towards supporting our educational mission. Items can be bought at the onsite shop or online at www.globeshop.com Swan at Shakespeare’s Globe bar and brasserie is open all year round. For reservations please call 020 7928 9444. The Shakespeare Globe Trust is a registered charity No.266916. Shakespeare’s Globe receives no public subsidy.