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Post by Cardinal Pirelli on Jan 4, 2018 13:58:44 GMT
Just digging into the concept of the Globe Ensemble presenting Hamlet and As You Like It. Apparently Terry is trying to change the production hierarchy but there are also two co-directors, which seems like two different approaches fighting against each other, You don’t dilute directorial power by having two of them, you double it. Co-directors is one of those things that sounds nice too but, in practice, complicates matters more than anything. I’m presuming she sees this more like a devised theatre company but a McBurney tends to take up control anyway. It’s like communism or libertarianism, in the end someone starts telling everyone what to do. It’s very brave, though, to do it before anything else.
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Post by Baemax on Jan 4, 2018 14:09:35 GMT
More Rylance - www.westminster-abbey.org/press/news/2018/january/sir-mark-rylance-returns-to-westminster-abbeySir Mark Rylance will return to Westminster Abbey with a company of actors bringing the words of William Shakespeare to life for six special performances in April. All Places that the Eye of Heaven Visits will take place on the evenings of Thursday 26th, Friday 27th and Saturday 28th April, and will feature a cast of 23 actors from Shakespeare’s Globe theatre. During the performances, audience members will move through the Abbey, encountering the actors performing extracts from some of Shakespeare’s most famous plays and poetry. ‘Like the best of birthday presents…not what you expected, but just what you wanted.’ - The Times on 2017's event Tickets, priced £37.00, will be on sale from Monday 29th January via the Shakespeare’s Globe box office. They did this last year. It was a rather lovely evening out, though at the price I'm not necessarily in a hurry to repeat the experience.
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Post by kathryn on Jan 4, 2018 14:42:45 GMT
Ooh, missed it last year so will have to try and go this time.
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Post by Boob on Jan 4, 2018 15:33:46 GMT
All sounds very dreary. Delighted to save my cheeks the torture of a visit there this year.
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Post by Dawnstar on Jan 4, 2018 16:13:28 GMT
Add me to the list of those who are dubious about the voting for which play to be done. Audience choice is all very well for improvisation, where you're getting something new no matter what options are voted for, but I find it hard to believe many people are equally interested in seeing all 3 plays, unless they're tourists who are visiting the Globe purely to tick it off the list. Personally I don't want to see Merchant of Venice again yet, having seen it at the Globe in 2015, & I only enjoy Taming of the Shrew in its musical incarnation so I wouldn't be booking for a performance when I'd only have a 1 in 3 chance of seeing a play that I actually want to see again.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2018 16:28:07 GMT
How are the audience going to decide? Will it be a clap-o-meter?
I'm willing to bet that they decide which play they're going to do beforehand and just pretend that that was the one that got the most votes. Just like in 'Mary Stuart'. I don't believe for one minute that Lia Williams and Juliet Stevenson didn't know who was playing Mary and who was playing Betty each night.
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Post by lynette on Jan 4, 2018 16:52:39 GMT
Agree, Ryan.
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Post by partytentdown on Jan 4, 2018 20:14:57 GMT
I like the rebrand and some of the ideas but the idea of dragging Rylance back is a bit tiresome and slightly goes against the feeling of a new start, looking forward, etc and seems a bit of a 'Oh alright then' to everyone who complained firstly at Dromgoole's changes a decade ago and Rice's changes more recently. Rylance is a great actor but he (and we) have moved on from his Globe days, I feel personally.
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Post by Backdrifter on Jan 5, 2018 9:43:46 GMT
The Voter's Choice thing sounds pretty annoying to be honest. I can see an argument for it being a proper test for the cast and adding a real frisson of excitement not knowing what play you're about to see, but the Globe's been working hard for twenty years to be considered a "real theatre", not just some tourist nonsense where you tick "see a Shakespeare at the Globe" off your bucket list. The idea that you could see any of three plays sort of goes along with the idea that it doesn't really matter what play you see, and I worry that this devalues the enterprise as a whole. Okay, maybe you're time-poor and incredibly indecisive so this is a great way to book a performance without the pressure of having to immediately choose which play to book, but it's more likely that the auditorium will be filled with the kind of people who are constantly at the Globe anyway (and the less said about some of the regulars, the better) and the kind of people who don't really care about the theatre, they're just working through their London tourist to-do list. I for one am going to be hoping for fixed performance dates alongside the Voter's Choice dates so I know I'm seeing what I want to see (each play once with no risk whatsoever that I'll be seeing Merchant Of Venice three times in a row). Yes.
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Post by lynette on Jan 6, 2018 22:38:52 GMT
Got the brochure today. Loads of events and a season of events studying black culture in relation to Shakespeare. All good. But they left the prices off the brochure so you can’t choose seats according to price. I phoned them and the guy wearily told me I wasn’t the only one. The general range of prices is there under each play details but at the back the 'map' which is very small hasn't got anything else on cost. I’ve decided to go for Hamlet and As You Like It, Othello, Emilia and the event at Westminster. They are doing Hamlet and As You both on one day, Sundays, I think. They have put them together for some reason I can’t quite grasp. Would be nice for anyone who fancies a day on South Bank. Not for me this time because the seats are not comfortable enough for six hours.
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Post by kathryn on Jan 6, 2018 22:59:11 GMT
I think the logic is just that they were written around the same time, and would have likely been performed by the same company originally, which is kind of mind-boggling, admittedly, so they’re doing them in rep just to see what happens.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 6, 2018 23:19:16 GMT
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Post by Xanderl on Jan 7, 2018 7:23:11 GMT
The brochure is available online - www.shakespearesglobe.com/uploads/files/2018/01/summer_2018_brochure8.pdfSeems odd that there are only 10 performances each of Emilia and Eyam. And the brochure confirms there will be 4 pre-determined performances each of the touring productions at the Globe, and four "voter's choice" performances. And agree with Lynette that just saying "seated tickets from £22" is not particularly helpful! I think last year the cheapest seats were £20 so hopefully things haven't changed too much.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 7, 2018 9:21:08 GMT
And agree with Lynette that just saying "seated tickets from £22" is not particularly helpful! Many theatre brochures do this now.
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Post by martin1965 on Jan 7, 2018 10:04:08 GMT
Got the brochure today. Loads of events and a season of events studying black culture in relation to Shakespeare. All good. But they left the prices off the brochure so you can’t choose seats according to price. I phoned them and the guy wearily told me I wasn’t the only one. The general range of prices is there under each play details but at the back the 'map' which is very small hasn't got anything else on cost. I’ve decided to go for Hamlet and As You Like It, Othello, Emilia and the event at Westminster. They are doing Hamlet and As You both on one day, Sundays, I think. They have put them together for some reason I can’t quite grasp. Would be nice for anyone who fancies a day on South Bank. Not for me this time because the seats are not comfortable enough for six hours. You a member Lynette? I mean to have brochure posted now. I was going to ring but thought they would tell ne to wait for public booking to open.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 7, 2018 10:06:36 GMT
Not a member, but I picked up a copy on Thursday morning at Shakespeare's Globe.
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Post by partytentdown on Jan 7, 2018 10:39:01 GMT
And agree with Lynette that just saying "seated tickets from £22" is not particularly helpful! Many theatre brochures do this now. This is so prices can be 'dynamic'. For example if they fix the price of each seat as soon as the season is announced, they could potentially have made more money if the show is a hit by increasing prices subtly during the run. Or conversely, if it's a flop, it's more difficult to reduce the price of seats to shift them. In reality it means that, for example, if it says 'From £22', they only have to guarantee a handful of seats at £22 at a busy Saturday night performance, but they may change hundreds of seats at a quiet matinee to that price. It's a commercially savvy thing to do and I'm surprised it's taken them this long to change the model.
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Post by partytentdown on Jan 7, 2018 10:42:27 GMT
Got the brochure today. Loads of events and a season of events studying black culture in relation to Shakespeare. All good. But they left the prices off the brochure so you can’t choose seats according to price. I phoned them and the guy wearily told me I wasn’t the only one. The general range of prices is there under each play details but at the back the 'map' which is very small hasn't got anything else on cost. I’ve decided to go for Hamlet and As You Like It, Othello, Emilia and the event at Westminster. They are doing Hamlet and As You both on one day, Sundays, I think. They have put them together for some reason I can’t quite grasp. Would be nice for anyone who fancies a day on South Bank. Not for me this time because the seats are not comfortable enough for six hours. You a member Lynette? I mean to have brochure posted now. I was going to ring but thought they would tell ne to wait for public booking to open. I spoke to them last year on the phone and they now only post brochures to paying members, which makes sense in terms of waste I guess. But there's a PDF on the website.
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Post by Baemax on Jan 7, 2018 10:56:03 GMT
Seems odd that there are only 10 performances each of Emilia and Eyam. And the brochure confirms there will be 4 pre-determined performances each of the touring productions at the Globe, and four "voter's choice" performances. It's pretty standard that any new non-Shakespeare plays have a surprisingly short run. It doesn't sound like it at first because of the date range, but counting performances reveals the limits. Good news about the pre-determined performances of the touring shows though, thanks!
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 7, 2018 12:50:48 GMT
Seems odd that there are only 10 performances each of Emilia and Eyam. There are 11 performances of Emilia and 10 of Eyam. Eyam plays in late September to mid October when many people are unwilling to risk freezing to death at the Globe. The audience capacity of 10 performances at the Globe is similar to a standard run at the Dorfman or Downstairs at the Royal Court.
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Post by martin1965 on Jan 7, 2018 14:26:58 GMT
You a member Lynette? I mean to have brochure posted now. I was going to ring but thought they would tell ne to wait for public booking to open. I spoke to them last year on the phone and they now only post brochures to paying members, which makes sense in terms of waste I guess. But there's a PDF on the website. Thanx, the link on here crossed with my post.
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Post by lynette on Jan 7, 2018 14:53:16 GMT
Yes, I’m a priority booking person ( 'ark at 'er) and I can’t phone my Booking in, I have to fill in the form and post back which I have done. I don’t like the Internet Booking because I keep having to back and forth... well, usually, to be honest I haven looked at the Globe one. On the form there is a nice space for comments so I can ask for a particular seat which I do. I think they have added this comments space especially for me as before I used to write all over the margins of the form. I’m like that.
Last year I didn’t book for anything at the Globe. This year I’ve booked three and the Westminster Abbey gig. But I still paid as a supporter. I firmly believe in this Theatre. I was a supporter from the beginning before it was built. I think it is a super addition to the scene in all sorts of way. I don’t think it receives subsidies from the state does it?
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 7, 2018 15:40:56 GMT
I don’t think it receives subsidies from the state does it? As a registered charity, it benefits from GiftAid contributions from HMRC.
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Post by alexandra on Jan 12, 2018 15:06:51 GMT
Huh? What did I say in October 2016 about the Globe's 2018 season?
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 12, 2018 15:38:12 GMT
Huh? What did I say in October 2016 about the Globe's 2018 season? No, unfortunately you have to make those kind of decisions in theatre (or you should) because the new AD has to start programming a year or so ahead. The new AD, or more likely an Usher promoted to the new substitute role of Acting Interim Master of Stage, won't need much lead time to cast and rehearse actors to spout straight off the page in shared lighting. They're not going to do actual theatre after Emma Rice leaves. I wish there was a "laugh" button, i.e. you didn't agree with it but it made you laugh. The opening double bill of the first season (Hamlet and As You Like It presented by The Globe Ensemble with no director) seems to me to be closer to my prediction than to an AD starting their programming a year or so ahead. Of course, the outcome may be revelatory.
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Post by alexandra on Jan 12, 2018 15:59:26 GMT
Planned spontaneity
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Post by martin1965 on Jan 12, 2018 18:06:05 GMT
Yes, I’m a priority booking person ( 'ark at 'er) and I can’t phone my Booking in, I have to fill in the form and post back which I have done. I don’t like the Internet Booking because I keep having to back and forth... well, usually, to be honest I haven looked at the Globe one. On the form there is a nice space for comments so I can ask for a particular seat which I do. I think they have added this comments space especially for me as before I used to write all over the margins of the form. I’m like that. Last year I didn’t book for anything at the Globe. This year I’ve booked three and the Westminster Abbey gig. But I still paid as a supporter. I firmly believe in this Theatre. I was a supporter from the beginning before it was built. I think it is a super addition to the scene in all sorts of way. I don’t think it receives subsidies from the state does it? No
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Post by jasper on Jan 12, 2018 18:45:15 GMT
Yes, I’m a priority booking person ( 'ark at 'er) and I can’t phone my Booking in, I have to fill in the form and post back which I have done. I don’t like the Internet Booking because I keep having to back and forth... well, usually, to be honest I haven looked at the Globe one. On the form there is a nice space for comments so I can ask for a particular seat which I do. I think they have added this comments space especially for me as before I used to write all over the margins of the form. I’m like that. Last year I didn’t book for anything at the Globe. This year I’ve booked three and the Westminster Abbey gig. But I still paid as a supporter. I firmly believe in this Theatre. I was a supporter from the beginning before it was built. I think it is a super addition to the scene in all sorts of way. I don’t think it receives subsidies from the state does it? No While it does not at present receive a grant or subsidies form the Arts Council in 1995 it had £12.4 million form the Lottery Funding. This was to fund the completion of the building
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Post by lynette on Jan 12, 2018 21:59:09 GMT
At the start the fund raising of the Globe was amazing. Do you recall the bay they built? The obvious thing is to build up round and round but they realised that people wouldn't understand or visualise the finished building very well so they built a complete bay to let people see what it would be like. After that the money rolled in. And the wall, the named paving stones, the curtain , the events with Prince Philip and the 1000 club, with names up on the wall all strokes of genius that other places have failed to follow.
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Post by peggs on Jan 12, 2018 22:15:47 GMT
At the start the fund raising of the Globe was amazing. Do you recall the bay they built? The obvious thing is to build up round and round but they realised that people wouldn't understand or visualise the finished building very well so they built a complete bay to let people see what it would be like. After that the money rolled in. And the wall, the named paving stones, the curtain , the events with Prince Philip and the 1000 club, with names up on the wall all strokes of genius that other places have failed to follow. All sounds rather fun, only around for play house fund raising, I think I bought a brick for it.
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