Shakespeare's Globe: A Theatrical Experiment

by Edited by Christie Carson , Farah Karim-Cooper

• ISBN13: 9780521877787
• ISBN10: 0521877784
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-10
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

From 1997 Shakespeare's Globe flourished once more on London's South Bank after an absence of 400 years. The playhouse is now a major attraction for theatregoers, scholars, tourists, teachers and students of all ages who come to experience Shakespeare's plays and those of his contemporaries performed in their original conditions. The team of artists and education specialists who made this happen come together here to reflect on their 10-year experiment. Principal actors, designers, musicians and Globe Education staff engage with international scholars in a lively debate about the impact of this extraordinary building. Featuring an in-depth interview with former Artistic Director Mark Rylance and a contribution from Patrick Spottiswoode, Founder and Director of Globe Education, the book highlights the complex relationship between designer, composer, actor and audience which gives energy to this thriving Shakespearean center.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

The 'essence of Globeness': authenticity, and the search for Shakespeare's stagecraft

The 'Original Practices' Project

Stage Action

'Practising behaviour to his own shadow'

'Original practices' at the Globe: A theatre historian's view

Stage Appearance

Exploring early modern stage and costume design

Cosmetics on the Globe stage

Music and Sound

Music and aural texture at Shakespeare's Globe

Music, authenticity and audience

Actor/Audience Relationship

Research, materials, craft: principles of performance at Shakespeare's Globe

Democratising the audience?

Globe Education and Research

Contextualising Globe education

'That scull had a tongue in it, and could sing once': Staging Shakespeare's contemporaries

Learning through Shakespeare

Research and the Globe

Research in Practice: Practice in Research

Performing early music at Shakespeare's Globe

Discoveries from the Globe stage

Directing at the Globe and the Blackfriars: six big rules for contemporary directors

Conclusion

Afterword

Appendices: A list of the International Globe Theatre projects after 1970

A draft artistic policy for Shakespeare's Globe - 1988

Alan Dessen's Ten Commandments for work on the Globe stage - 1990

Production list 1997-2005

Read not Dead staged readings

List of Globe Quartos

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