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Nov. 11th, 2019 07:16 amThis coming weekend, I will be heading into town to visit the Pop Up Globe, a travelling full-scale working replica of Shakespeare's theatre.
I don't know if I'll get anything else done while I'm in town, or have a chance to look in on anybody, because I only have one day and in an attempt to make the most efficient use of the available time I'll be going to all three performances on that day - A Midsummer Night's Dream in the morning, Measure for Measure in the afternoon, and Hamlet in the evening.
In accordance with traditional practice, the theatre offers very cheap tickets where you stand in the yard front of the stage, or more expensive tickets where you sit in tiered seats around the yard. I did consider trying the groundling experience for at least one of the plays, but in the end I decided it was going to be a long and probably a hot day and it would be worth laying out the extra for a roof overhead and a chance to sit down. (One place the Pop Up Globe does diverge from the original is in having cushions on the seats, apparently. For the shows that feature blood or other exotic fluids, they also offer loaner raincoats to any groundlings who are worried about being in the splash zone from the stage.)
I don't know if I'll get anything else done while I'm in town, or have a chance to look in on anybody, because I only have one day and in an attempt to make the most efficient use of the available time I'll be going to all three performances on that day - A Midsummer Night's Dream in the morning, Measure for Measure in the afternoon, and Hamlet in the evening.
In accordance with traditional practice, the theatre offers very cheap tickets where you stand in the yard front of the stage, or more expensive tickets where you sit in tiered seats around the yard. I did consider trying the groundling experience for at least one of the plays, but in the end I decided it was going to be a long and probably a hot day and it would be worth laying out the extra for a roof overhead and a chance to sit down. (One place the Pop Up Globe does diverge from the original is in having cushions on the seats, apparently. For the shows that feature blood or other exotic fluids, they also offer loaner raincoats to any groundlings who are worried about being in the splash zone from the stage.)
