The Pop-Up Globe Theatre at Crown has extended its run due to popularity and will now be presenting Shakespeare’s work in its traditional setting until December.
The creators of Pop-up Globe and Live Nation announced that after critical acclaim and unprecedented popular demand, an extra week of performances will be added to the Perth season of Pop-up Globe, and it’s now scheduled to play until Sunday 1 December.
Since previews began on 5 October, audiences and critics alike have been raving about Pop-up Globe, with over 35,000 tickets sold already and many performances sold out.
Perth theatre critics have extolled the experience and each of Pop-up Globe’s plays. The West Australian said, “It’s a tour de force that delights and moves in equal measure” while Stage Whispers said, “A fun night that would be hard to beat as a theatrical experience”.
Dr Miles Gregory believes Shakespeare’s work performed in the space it is written for is a completely unique and transformative experience.
“Our audiences are blown away by the immersive experience of seeing Shakespeare performed in the space for which it was written. The relationship between actor and audience, the spectacular space itself, together with the power of Shakespeare’s incredible work, means attending plays at Pop-up Globe is totally different from anything you’ve ever
seen before,” he said.
Pop-up Globe is a three-storey, 16-sided, 900-person capacity theatre, uniting cutting-edge scaffold technology with a 400-year-old design to transport audiences back in time. No matter where they sit or stand in the theatre, audience members are never more than 15 metres from the heart of the action on stage.
Sometimes they’ll even find themselves in the play. The world’s first full-scale temporary working replica of the second Globe, the theatre Shakespeare and his company built and opened in 1614 after the first Globe theatre burned to the ground, is located in Crown Perth.
For tickets and more details, go to popupglobe.com.au.
Source: Media Release
