Pop-up Globe's Epic Festival Of Shakespeare Is In Its Final Four Weeks

Sydney's most popular new theatre will close its doors in just four weeks. The Pop-up Globe ends its Sydney season on 16 December and no further extension is possible.

Since previews began on 30 August, capacity audiences and critics alike have been raving about Pop-up Globe, with over 80,000 tickets sold already and many performances sold out.

Sydney theatre critics have extolled the experience and each of the four different Shakespeare productions. Time Out Sydney claimed, "believe us when we say it is an experience" and it is "Physical, funny and smashes the fourth wall." The Sydney Morning Herald claimed, "this production may be the best Macbeth I've seen", and of A Midsummer Night's Dream, "This is as rollicking, immersive a production of Shakespeare's most popular comedy as has ever romped across a Modern Stage... This Dream is bawdy, naughty and brash. Fun? You bet your Sweet Ass".

Audiences are effusive in their praise for Pop-up Globe. Nicole Hague said, "Best night of theatre ever - hilarious and outrageous", Karen Beattie tweeted, "Fun for everyone! Interactive, funny and terrific actors! A thoroughly wonderful experience!", while John Havranek said, "Felt like we were right in the show. Our three teenage boys all enjoyed it -much more fun than reading it at school!" Eliane Davis Morel said, "Absolutely loved this version of A Midsummer Night's Dream - down to earth, side splittingly funny, audience oriented, physical, slapstick, unexpected, clever and energetic. Best Shakespeare I've seen".

In fact, in just two years Pop-up Globe has become one of the most popular new theatres ever, drawing audiences of more than 450,000 people in the first 24 months including more than 150,000 attendances at its critically-acclaimed season in Melbourne earlier this year.

Pop-up Globe is a three-storey, 16-sided, 900-person capacity theatre, uniting cutting-edge scaffold technology with a 400-year-old design to transport audiences back in time. No matter where they sit or stand in the theatre, audience members are never more than 15 metres from the heart of the action on stage. Sometimes they'll even find themselves in the play. The world's first full-scale temporary working replica of the second Globe, the theatre Shakespeare and his company built and opened in 1614 after the first Globe theatre burned to the ground, is located in the Showring at Sydney's Entertainment Quarter.

Two casts perform the four plays in repertory. The all-male Buckingham's cast perform A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Merchant of Venice, while the Southampton's cast perform Macbeth and The Comedy of Errors.

For tickets and more details, go to popupglobe.com.au.

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