Shakespeare: Playing Indoors

October December

Events

2012

Shakespeare:

Playing In oors

Read not dead Performances with scripts of plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries

The Court Beggar Sunday 4 November

By Richard Brome (1640) Originally performed at the Cockpit

by Beeston’s Boys, Brome’s funny and perceptive satire pokes fun at court intrigue, theatrical politics, and sexual and financial impropriety. Projectors, dependents, a pickpocket and a madman arrive at the house of the widowed Lady Strangelove, and loves and fortunes are won and lost.

TIME

3.00pm

VENUE

Sackler Studios, Shakespeare’s Globe

TICKETS

£8 (£6 FoSG/concs/students)

Cynthia’s Revels, or The Fountain of Self-Love Sunday 2 December

By Ben Jonson (1600) Cynthia’s Revels was probably the first new play written for the Children of the Chapel, the boys company who performed at the Blackfriars. A satire on court behaviour, fashion and theatre, Jonson’s play showcases the talents of the boy actors, culminating in the performance of elaborate revels for the goddess Cynthia.

RARELY PLAYED These inspiring and engaging introductions to the Read Not Dead performances are delivered by leading specialists in Early Modern Theatre.

TIME

3.00pm

VENUE

Sackler Studios, Shakespeare’s Globe

TICKETS

£8 (£6 FoSG/concs/students)

TIME

12.00noon – 2.00pm

VENUE

Sackler Studios, Shakespeare’s Globe

TICKETS

£13 (£10 FoSG/concs/students) Includes ticket to the Read Not Dead performance

SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE BOOK AWARD LECTURE Wednesday 10 October Abigail Rokison, winner of the inaugural Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award, discusses the discoveries made in her book Shakespearean Verse Speaking.

Supported by Globe actor Philip Cumbus, Abigail’s talk combines scholarship and practical exploration from the rehearsal room to consider how editorial decisions in printed texts influence theatrical performance.

The Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award is granted to a first monograph which has made an important contribution to the understanding of Shakespeare, his theatre or contemporaries.

Abigail Rokison Abigail is a scholar and actress wellknown for her role as Primrose Larkin in TV’s The Darling Buds of May amongst many others. After extensive study and academic roles, she now holds the position of Director of Studies in English and Drama at Homerton College, Cambridge.

TIME

7.00pm

VENUE

Sam Wanamaker Studio at Sackler Studios, Shakespeare’s Globe

TICKETS

£10 (£8 FoSG/concs/students)

THEATRE HISTORY SEMINAR Thursday 8 November Dr Farah Karim-Cooper (Head of Courses and Research, Globe Education) and Professor Martin White (University of Bristol) discuss cosmetics, candlelight and other theatrical developments brought about by the birth of indoor playhouses.

Many of these developments have been discovered through the Chamber of Demonstrations research experiments.

This talk will also celebrate the launch in paperback of Dr Karim-Cooper’s book Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama (Edinburgh University Press, 2006).

TIME

7.15pm

VENUE

Sackler Studios, Shakespeare’s Globe

TICKETS

£10 (£8 FoSG/concs/students)

SHAKESPEARE: PLAYING INDOORS LECTURE Tuesday 20 November Professor Tiffany Stern and Dr Bart Van Es of the University of Oxford explore entertainment in Jacobean society, including the development of the indoor playhouse and how this changed the relationship between actors, companies and audience.

TIME

7.00pm

VENUE

Sackler Studios, Shakespeare’s Globe

TICKETS

£12 (£10 FoSG/concs/students) Includes glass of wine or juice

THESE ARE THE YOUTHS THAT THUNDER AT A PLAYHOUSE Monday 10 December In the first of a series of lectures celebrating young scholars, Dr Sarah Dustagheer (King’s College, London) and Dr Andy Kessen (University of Kent) discuss the plays and playhouses of Jacobean London.

They explore the relationships between indoor playhouses, their companies and their audiences, and look particularly at the first Blackfriars theatre and the work of its proprietor John Lyly.

TIME

7.00pm

VENUE

Sackler Studios, Shakespeare’s Globe

TICKETS

£10 (£8 FoSG/concs/students)

A CONCERT FOR WINTER Thursday 6 December Join us for the annual A Concert for Winter, Shakespeare’s Globe’s festive celebration of the past, present and future of the Southwark Community complete with songs and folk music.

Supported by

With this year’s theme of ‘Southwark is Home’, A Concert for Winter will provide a carnival of community merriment, offering a creative and joyous conclusion to 2012. Our neighbours from Southwark will wrap up warm and bring our community closer together within our ‘wooden O’.

Everyone is invited.

Whatever you do, be part of the story unfolding...

There are a range of ways to take part in A Concert for Winter : perform, attend as an audience member, enter a Southwark Sonnet or post an image of a Local Landmark.

For further information, please visit the website.

Time

1.00pm

Venue

Shakespeare’s Globe

Tickets

Admission free but tickets must be booked in advance, Email: community.t@ shakespearesglobe.com

facts and figures

Lively Action

• Over 100,000 students and teachers learn with us every year

Workshops provided by Globe Education Practitioners are offered year-round to school and university groups at the Globe. All workshops include a practical exploration of the Globe theatre.

• Over £1,000,000 worth of tickets given away free in six years thanks to Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank • Over 90 public events each year • Over 10,000 hours of Globe performance recorded in our free public archive • Over 200 early modern plays performed since 1995 in the Read Not Dead series • Over 700 young people perform on the Globe stage every year

How to book

For further information, contact livelyaction@shakespearesglobe.com

Discovery Space The Discovery Space is the dedicated digital resource hub from Shakespeare’s Globe and is packed with insights on how Globe productions are brought to life. Listen to over 500 actor interviews, catch up on past productions and research papers in the archives and explore the plays with our interactive micro sites.

Tickets for Globe Education public events must be booked through the Globe Box Office unless otherwise stated.

For all general Globe Education Events enquiries please call or visit Globe Education online.

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