Adrian Noble Talks The Old Globe's Summer Shakespeare Festival

In a recent interview with Reed Johnson of the LA Times, Adrian Noble talked about this season's Shakespeare Festival at The Old Globe in San Diego.

Noble recalls seeing Shakespeare productions at the Chichester Festival in his home town of West Sussex as a young man in the early 1960s: "Laurence Olivier. Ralph Richardson. Edith Evans was there. Michael Redgrave. Maggie Smith. I mean, it was just astonishing."

Noble now serves as the artistic director of The Old Globe's summer festival, this year Noble has chosen to do the plays in rep, he says "It gives an audience a chance to get to know a company of players. That's the nice thing, And sometimes there's a dialogue between the plays, so there's a dialogue between 'King Lear' and 'The Madness of [George III].' And there's a dialogue in a way between 'King Lear,' one of the great middle to late tragedies, and 'The Taming of the Shrew,' one of the early lighter comedies. It gives an audience a bit of a sense of occasion."

Noble was the artistic director of the Royal Shapespeare company for 13 years, he left in 2003 surrounding a great deal of controversy, the bad press hasn't assuaged his love of Shakespeare, Noble still believes "Shakespeare is one of the great civilizing influences in the world. I think he's one of the great unifiers of mankind."

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The Shakespeare Festival runs June 12 - Sept. 26 and begins the Globe's year-long celebration of its 75th Anniversary.

Tickets are currently available by subscription only and prices range from $75 to $228. Single tickets go on sale Sunday, April 25. Subscription packages may be purchased online at www.TheOldGlobe.org, by phone at (619) 23-GLOBE or by visiting the box office. Single tickets go on sale April 25 at 10:00 a.m.

King Lear runs June 12 - Sept. 23. Previews run June 24 and 25. Opening night is June 26.
The Taming of the Shrew runs June 16 - Sept. 26. Previews run June 16, 17, 27 and 29. Opening
night is June 30. The Madness of King George III runs June 19 - Sept. 24. Previews run June 19
and 20 and July 1 and 2. Opening night is July 3.

 

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