Roger Allam, who won the Olivier Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Falstaff in the Globe's Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 returns this spring to open the new season with The Tempest. Colin Morgan will play Ariel and Jeremy Herrin, also on a return visit, will direct.
Others on a return visit include Michelle Terry who will play Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Dominic Dromgoole, the Globe’s Artistic Director.
For the Scottish play, Eve Best makes her directorial debut with Joseph Millson playing Macbeth.
Three world premières are included in the season. These are Gabriel featuring award-winning trumpet soloist Alison Balsom, Blue Stockings by Jessica Swale and The Lightning Child, Ché Walker’s interpretation of Euripides’ The Bacchae.
International productions include South Africa's Isango Ensemble, Georgia’s Marjanishvili Theatre and the Belarus Free Theatre. Footsbarn also returns to the line-up.
On tour the Globe takes Shakespeare’s Henry VI trilogy to historic battle sites whilst other productions tour nationally and internationally, and three of last year's productions will be seen across the country and abroad via cinemas screens from April: Henry V, Twelfth Night, and The Taming of The Shrew.
The 2013 Theatre Season of Plenty:
- King Lear by William Shakespeare
Tours from 18 April - The Tempest by William Shakespeare
23 April – 18 August - Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare
Performed by Isango Ensemble in English, IsiZulu, IxiXhosa, SeSotho, Setswana and Afrikaans
29 April – 4 May - As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Performed by Marjanishvili Theatre in Georgian with scene synopses in English
6 – 11 May - A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
24 May – 12 October - The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
Tours 6 June - Macbeth by William Shakespeare
22 June – 13 October - Henry VI - Harry The Sixth, The Houses Of York And Lancaster and The True Tragedy Of The Duke Of York by William Shakespeare
Tours from 26 June to 22 September playing York Theatre Royal, Towton Battlefield, Brighton Theatre Royal, Shakespeare’s Globe, Malvern Festival Theatre, Tewkesbury Battlefield, Milton Keynes Theatre, St Albans Battlefield, Barnet Battlefield, Belfast Grand Opera House, Oxford Playhouse, and Cambridge Arts Theatre - Gabriel by Samuel Adamson
13 July – 18 August - Indian Tempest
29 July – 3 August - Blue Stockings by Jessica Swale
24 August – 11 October - The Lightning Child by Ché Walker
14 September – 12 October - King Lear by William Shakespeare
23 – 28 September
Public booking for stage performances is open from 11 February at www.shakespearesglobe.com.
For more information and booking the cinema season visit http://www.globeonscreen.com