![]() Some productions are filmed and released to cinemas as Globe on Screen productions (usually in the year following the live production), and on DVD. Plays are staged during the summer, usually between May and the first week of October in the winter, the theatre is used for educational purposes. ![]() The only covered parts of the amphitheatre are the stage and the seating areas. Like the original Globe, the modern theatre has a thrust stage that projects into a large circular yard surrounded by three tiers of raked seating. ![]() Listed Georgian townhouses now occupy part of the original site and could not be considered for removal. The theatre is located on Bankside, about 230 metres (750 ft) from the original site-measured from centre to centre. The Globe set up for a performance of Romeo and Juliet (2019) On 24 July 2017 her successor was announced to be the actor and writer Michelle Terry. In January 2016, Emma Rice began her term as the Globe's third artistic director, but in October 2016 announced her decision to resign from the position. Mark Rylance became the first artistic director in 1995 and was succeeded by Dominic Dromgoole in 2006. The theatre opened in 1997 under the name "Shakespeare's Globe Theatre", and has staged plays every summer. In 1994, the name "Globe Theatre" was used by one of the theatres in Shaftesbury Avenue to make the name available and to avoid confusion, that year it was renamed as the Gielgud Theatre. ![]() The construction, building research and historic design details were undertaken by McCurdy & Co. The design team consisted of architect Theo Crosby of Pentagram, structural and services engineer Buro Happold, and quantity surveyors from Boyden & Co. For practical reasons, some features of the 1614 rebuilding were incorporated into the modern design, such as the external staircases. To this were added: examinations of other surviving London buildings from the latter part of the 16th century comparisons with other theatres of the period (particularly the Fortune Playhouse, for which the building contract survives) and contemporary drawings and descriptions of the first Globe. A study was made of what was known of the construction of The Theatre, the building from which the 1599 Globe obtained much of its timber, as a starting point for the modern building's design. It was Wanamaker's wish that the new building recreate the Globe as it existed during most of Shakespeare's time there that is, the 1599 building rather than its 1614 replacement. A new Globe theatre was eventually built according to a design based on the research of historical adviser John Orrell. Many people maintained that a faithful Globe reconstruction was impossible to achieve due to the complications in the 16th-century design and modern fire safety requirements however, Wanamaker and his associate Diana Devlin persevered in their vision for over 20 years to create the theatre. This inspired the founding of a number of Shakespeare's Globe Centres around the world, an activity in which Wanamaker also participated. In 1970, American actor and director Sam Wanamaker founded the Shakespeare Globe Trust and the International Shakespeare Globe Centre, with the objective of building a faithful recreation of Shakespeare's Globe close to its original location at Bankside, Southwark. ![]() She is the second actor-manager in charge of the organisation, following Mark Rylance, the founding artistic director. Michelle Terry currently serves as artistic director. The Sackler Studios, an educational and rehearsal studio complex, is situated just around the corner from the main site. This is a smaller, candle-lit space based on historic plans for an indoor playhouse of Jacobean era London (possibly Blackfriars Theatre). The site also includes the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, an indoor theatre which opened in January 2014. It opened to the public in 1997, with a production of Henry V. The modern Shakespeare's Globe was founded by the actor and director Sam Wanamaker, and built about 230 metres (750 ft) from the site of the original theatre in the historic open-air style. It is considered quite realistic, though modern safety requirements mean that it accommodates only 1,400 spectators compared to the original theatre's 3,000. The modern Globe Theatre is an academic approximation based on available evidence of the 15 buildings. The original theatre was built in 1599, destroyed by the fire in 1613, rebuilt in 1614, and then demolished in 1644. Shakespeare's Globe is a reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse for which William Shakespeare wrote his plays, in the London Borough of Southwark, on the south bank of the River Thames. ![]()
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