Globe's 1998 Programme Released Date: 8 January 1998
The 1998 all-comedies season at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre opens on Tuesday 19 May with previews of As You Like It and closes on Saturday 19 September with Merchant of Venice. Previews of Merchant will be from 20 May. The other half of the season will consist of productions of Thomas Dekker's The Honest Whore (previewing from 1 August) and Thomas Middleton's A Mad World, My Masters (previewing from 2 August). Whore is a 1604-5 piece that reflects the underworld of Jacobean London with a tale of two women at contrasting ends of the social scale: princess and harlot. Mad World is a follow-up to the 1997 season production of Middleton's Chaste Maid and is a story of two contrasting families that effectively satirises London society of the 1600s.. To order tickets for the Globe, use our online ticket ordering service. Booking starts at the beginning of February. In addition to the four comedies, there's to be an extensive programme of activities organised around the theatre by Globe Education:
Actor-led 'Globe Walkshops' every Saturday from 23 May to 19 September which will explore the theatre's ancestry by visiting the sites of nearby Southwark
From 20 May, Wednesday and Saturday evening question-and-answer sessions with the theatre's actors, directors, and musicians
Children's workshops (age 7-11) on Saturday afternoons based around As You Like It and Merchant of Venice
'Face2Face', a series of talks on selected Sunday afternoons and Monday evenings on issues raised by the plays in the 1998 season
Staged readings as part of Globe Education's Shakespeare and the Jews series
On 10 June, Globe artistic director Mark Rylance and Peter Dawkins will host a half-day seminar/workshop on As You Like It
A series of workshops on Merchant of Venice and As You Like It with director Richard Olivier.
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