Shakespeare's Globe Hits The Road With MIDSUMMER & COMEDY OF ERRORS May-August

Shakespeare's Globe will take to the road again this summer, with two new scaled-down productions of The Comedy of Errors and A Midsummer Night's Dream. The tours will visit beautiful open-air settings across the UK and Europe between May and August 2009, offering theatre-lovers a delightful and totally unique summer experience. Performed on a small Elizabethan stage, two troupes of eight travelling players reinvent renaissance touring theatre for the 21st century with two of Shakespeare's comic masterpieces.

Full of cross purposes and manic slapstick, The Comedy of Errors is a hectic and hilarious tale of estranged brothers and twin servants kept ignorant of each other. Shakespeare's Globe is pleased to welcome back director Rebecca Gatward, whose production of The Merchant of Venice entertained Shakespeare's Globe audiences in 2007.

A Midsummer Night's Dream is loved around the world for its teasing and inventive wit. Two couples, an amateur troupe of actors and an angry dispute between the king and queen of the fairies, collide in the woods outside Athens with absurd and dreamlike results. This new production will be directed by Raz Shaw whose credits include Torn (Arcola Theatre) and Othello (Salisbury Playhouse).

Shakespeare's Globe on Tour will play to audiences in a variety of beautiful outdoor venues including The Bodleian Library Quadrangle in Oxford; Ripley Castle, Yorkshire; the Minack Theatre, Cornwall and Leeds Castle in Kent, as well as charismatic indoor theatres such as the Georgian Theatre, Richmond and the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds.

Dominic Dromgoole, Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe, says; ‘Touring has become a regular feature of the Globe's summer theatre season, and we are delighted to be visiting so many stunning venues this year and reaching out to new audiences for the Globe '.

The Comedy of Errors - Shakespeare's Globe On Tour

21 May - 23 August 2009

Directed by Rebecca Gatward

Designed by Liz Cooke

Composed by Alex Silverman

Choreography by Sian Williams

*Tickets available from The Globe box office 020 7401 9919 or online at www.shakespeares-globe.org. For all others please book through venue.

22-24 May
Dyke Road Rest Garden, Brighton
01273 709709 www.brightonfestival.org/
26-29 May
Shakespeare's Globe, London*

30- 31 May
Trafalgar Park, Salisbury*

2-7 June
Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmonds
01284 769505 www.theatreroyal.org
10-16 June
Oslo, Norway

19-21 June
Globe Theatre in Neuss, Germany

23-28 June
Heaton Park, Manchester*

29-30 June
Crichton Campus, Dumfries*

3-5 July
Pavilion Gardens, Buxton
0845 127 2190 www.buxtonoperahouse.org.uk
7-8 July
Ripley Castle, Harrogate*

9-12 July
Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond, Yorkshire

14-19 July
St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury*

22-24 July
Valetta, Malta

28 July - 9 August
Bodleian Library, Oxford*

11 August
Three Choirs Festival, Hereford
0845 6521823 www.3choirs.org
12-13 August
Lydiard House, Swindon*

14-16 August
South Hill Park, Bracknell*

18-23 August
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
01223 503333
www.cambridgeartstheatre.com

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare's Globe On Tour

19 June - 30 August

Directed by Raz Shaw

Designed by Hannah Clark

Composed by Alex Silverman

Choreography by Georgina Lamb

*Tickets available from The Globe box office 020 7401 9919 or online at www.shakespeares-globe.org. For all others please book through venues.

19-21 June
City Museum, Portsmouth*

23-28 June
Ashton Court, Bristol*

30 June-5 July
Leeds Castle, Maidstone*

7 July
Parham House, West Sussex*

8-11 July
Shakespeare's Globe, London*

13-14 July
Hertsmonceux Castle*

15-18 July
Hestercombe Gardens*

20-24 July
Minack Theatre, Cornwall
01736 810181/810471 www.minack.com/
27-28 July
Hedingham Castle, Essex*

31 July-6 August
Gdansk, Poland

8-9 August
Austria

12-16 August
St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury*

18-19 August
Newby Hall, Yorkshire*

20-23 August
Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond, Yorkshire
01748 825252 www.georgiantheatreroyal.co.uk
25-30 August
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
01223 503333
www.cambridgeartstheatre.com
31 August
St Donats Castle, Vale of Glamorgan*

 

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