We’re delighted to be sponsors of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London. The Globe Theatre is a faithful reconstruction of the open-air playhouse, first built in 1599, where Shakespeare worked and for which he wrote many of his greatest plays.
Each year the theatre season runs from April to October with productions of work by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, as well as modern writers. Each year over 350,000 members of the audience experience the ‘wooden O’ sitting in a gallery or standing as a ‘groundling’ in the yard, just as they would have done 400 years ago. See here.
As a proud English company, based in London, we are thrilled by Shakespeare’s work and traditions, and the idea of The Globe as the ‘home of Shakespeare’ as it was meant to be seen in the Elizabethan London thrills us to this day.
Sam Wanamaker
The Globe Theatre is a tribute to the life’s work and passion of Sam Wanamaker, US film producer and director of the 1950’s 60’s and 70’s. Here’s how he was smitten by the idea (From The Globe’s excellent website) after his first visit to London in 1949.-
” Twenty-one years later he founded what was to become the Shakespeare Globe Trust, dedicated to the reconstruction of the theatre and the creation of an education centre and permanent exhibition. After 23 years spent tirelessly fundraising, advancing research into the appearance of the original Globe and planning the reconstruction with the Trust’s architect Theo Crosby, Sam Wanamaker died in 1993, the site having been secured, the exhibition undercroft structurally complete and a few timber bays of the theatre in place. Three and a half years later the theatre was completed…”
To see what’s playing at The Globe now and to learn about the theatre, Shakespeare, the educational opportunities and the general fabulousness of the place, click here and have fun.
