TOUR 'ROUND THE GLOBE!

Shakespeare's Globe Theater

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages."
 ~ William Shakespeare

Took the tube: Mansion House

& walked across the Millennium Bridge to

Shakespeare's Globe Theater

Top-view of Shakespeare's Globe Theater

M - U - S - E - U - M
included:

miniature display of the original theater

timeline of Shakespeare's life & Elizabethan theater

costume, music & special effects displays

explanation of the rebuilding of the Globe Theater

T - O - U - R

 included:

explanation of theater vocabulary

what's a "groundling"?

explanation of seating areas

lower, middle, upper class

first three rows were in the sunshine

difference between new Globe & old Globe

NEW: lights for evening performance

OLD: males played ALL roles (even Cleopatra)

stage-hands setting up for Anne Boleyn

LOVED the tour & museum so much we

$$  purchased  $$

tickets 

for August 7th matinee

performance of

"ANNE BOLEYN"

view of stage from middle class section

I think we might qualify for 

M-I-D-D-L-E   C-L-A-S-S?

stage-hand in GROUNDLING seating

 THINK AGAIN!!!

ONLY AVAILABLE SEATS

"GROUNDLING"

we'll experience

ELIZABETHAN THEATER

up CLOSE & PERSONAL

GROUNDLING = lower than lowest class

we will be front & center

STANDING on the GROUND!!

Our "GROUNDLING" mates...

Shakespeare Globe pigeons