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Autumn events include an opera and concert in the Globe Theatre, storytelling performances, staged readings, family events, the Theo Crosby Lecture and a conference.
The season begins with a world premiere in the Globe Theatre of a musical interpretation of Seamus Heaney’s The Burial at Thebes directed by Derek Walcott with orchestra, soloists and chorus.
The 2008 Theo Crosby Lecture will be given by Professor Andrew Gurr and will commemorate the 400th anniversary of the King’s Men’s move from the Globe to the indoor Blackfriars Playhouse for winter performances. The lecture will precede an International Conference, held in Professor Gurr’s honour, which will explore the Blackfriars’ influence on plays and playing.
Plays performed at both the Blackfriars and the Globe have been chosen for this autumn’s series of Read Not Dead staged-readings and Rarely Played seminars. James Wallace returns as co-ordinator of the season that includes plays by Brome, Heywood, Ford and Shirley.
Family events for half-term in the Shakespeare’s Globe Exhibition will include storytelling in the Tent for Peace, art workshops, swordplay, music and clothing demonstrations and tales in the Tiring House.
The magnificent Crick Crack Club returns with a second series of Tales for Winter presented by some of Europe’s most distinguished storytellers over four successive Saturday evenings. Stories will be told indoors.
Over 25,000 school students, teachers, undergraduates and graduates will take to the Globe stage morning, noon and night this autumn for workshops and courses and the season will end with the annual lunchtime A Concert for Winter in the Globe Theatre led by students from Southwark schools. The Concert is open to all.
If you join the Friends of Shakespeare’s Globe you will receive discounts for all events as well as invitations to special Friends’ events that are also listed in this brochure. You will also be supporting an organisation that does not receive a penny of government subsidy.
Please join us.
Patrick Spottiswoode
Director, Globe Education
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Shakespeare's Globe Events October - December 2008
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