Globe Theatre

Wednesday 10th June

Price £48.00 per person

Organiser: Ken Johnstone

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All the World's a Stage

Join us to take a guided tour of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London.

The tour takes approximately 1 hour. Following that, there is a separate Exhibition Hall that can be visited.

There is also the Swan Bar and restaurant on site where tea/coffee and lunch can be taken.

The Globe Theatre you see today in London is the third Globe.

The first opened in 1599 and was built by the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, the company that William Shakespeare wrote for and part owned.

We think that the first play Shakespeare wrote for the original Globe was Julius Caesar in spring 1599. Later that year he also wrote As You Like It and made a start on Hamlet. Over the next fourteen years Shakespeare wrote some of his greatest plays, including Twelfth Night, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra.

Other playwrights wrote for the Globe during this time too, including Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton and John Fletcher.

In 1613, during a performance of Shakespeare’s Henry VIII (co-written with Fletcher), a mis-fired prop canon caused the thatch roof to catch fire. The entire theatre burnt down within two hours, according to eyewitness reports (miraculously, no one was killed). The company rebuilt the Globe in a year – with a tiled roof. The second Globe operated until it was closed by parliamentary decree in 1642.

The current Globe Theatre opened in 1997, after many years of campaigning by the founder of the Shakespeare’s Globe Trust, Sam Wanamaker.

Included in the visit:

Coach travel (with WC) and includes driver’s tip

Guided tour of the Globe Theatre (approx. 1 hour)

Self-guided tour of the Exhibition Hall

Not included: Lunch

Leave: Wallingford Museum 08:30 Crowmarsh Church 08:35

Arrive: The Globe Theatre 10:30 (1100 guided tour)

Depart: London 15:30

Wallingford: 17:30 approximately

PLEASE NOTE, THE LEAVING TIMES FROM WALLINGFORD AND CROWMARSH WILL BE CONFIRMED BY THE COACH OPERATOR

TO BOOK:

We are limited to 40 places, so please, send your booking by email the following FIVE points of booking information to Ken Johnstone outings1@thamesidewallingfordu3a.org

Please put GLOBE plus your surname in the Subject line.

1. My/our Name(s)

2. My phone number(s) & email address

3. Reserve for me .... place(s) @ £48.00 per person

4. Pick me up from ... Wallingford Museum or ... Crowmarsh Church

5. Name, relationship and phone number of an emergency contact on that day.

Tickets will cost £48.00 per person. This includes the tour of the Theatre, the coach (with WC) and the driver’s tip.

DO NOT PAY YET. You will be asked to pay using your bank's online bank transfer or cheque

only when you are offered a place.

Please note that outings are only available to Thameside Wallingford u3a members.