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Dateline: 9th April, 2009

Two Globe Tours This Summer

Shakespeare’s Globe will take to the road again this summer, with two new scaled-down productions of The Comedy of Errors and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The tours will visit open-air settings across the UK and Europe between May and August. Performing on a small Elizabethan stage, two troupes of eight travelling players reinvent renaissance touring theatre for the 21st century with two of Shakespeare’s comic masterpieces.

The Comedy of Errors will be directed by Rebecca Gatward, whose production of The Merchant of Venice entertained Shakespeare’s Globe audiences in 2007. Raz Shaw whose credits include Torn (Arcola Theatre) and Othello (Salisbury Playhouse) directs A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Dominic Dromgoole, Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe, said, "Touring has become a regular feature of the Globe’s summer theatre season, and we are delighted to be visiting so many stunning venues this year and reaching out to new audiences for the Globe."

The Tour

Comedy of Errors

22-24 May
Dyke Road Rest Garden, Brighton

26-29 May
Shakespeare’s Globe, London

30- 31 May
Trafalgar Park, Salisbury

2-7 June
Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmonds

10-16 June
Oslo, Norway

19-21 June
Globe Theatre in Neuss, Germany

23-28 June
Heaton Park, Manchester

29-30 June
Crichton Campus, Dumfries

3-5 July
Pavilion Gardens, Buxton

7-8 July
Ripley Castle, Harrogate

9-12 July
Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond, Yorkshire

14-19 July
St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury

22-24 July
Valetta, Malta

28 July – 9 August
Bodleian Library, Oxford

11 August
Three Choirs Festival, Hereford

12-13 August
Lydiard House, Swindon*


14-16 August
South Hill Park, Bracknell

18-23 August
Emmanuel College, Cambridge

A Midsummer Night's Dream

-21 June
City Museum, Portsmouth

23-28 June
Ashton Court, Bristol

30 June-5 July
Leeds Castle, Maidstone

7 July
Parham House, West Sussex

8-11 July
Shakespeare’s Globe, London

13-14 July
Hertsmonceux Castle

15-18 July
Hestercombe Gardens

20-24 July
Minack Theatre, Cornwall

27-28 July
Hedingham Castle, Essex

31 July-6 August
Gdansk, Poland

8-9 August
Austria

12-16 August
St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury

18-19 August
Newby Hall, Yorkshire

20-23 August
Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond, Yorkshire

25-30 August
Emmanuel College, Cambridge

31 August
St Donats Castle, Vale of Glamorgan

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