Perspectives

Platform discussions providing further insights into the theatre season's new writes and John Wolfson (Honorary Curator of Rare Books, Shakespeare's Globe) exploring three parts of Henry VI.

Gabriel

Thursday 1 August

In Gabriel, an unprecedented music and theatrical event, Alison Balsom, one of the world’s finest trumpeters, and award-winning writer Samuel Adamson explore the notion that the natural (valveless) trumpet was the supreme musical instrument of the Restoration. Join the playwright before the evening performance as he talks about his experience of writing music-led theatre for a unique venue.

Making Sense of Henry VI

Wednesday 4 September

This year John Wolfson ( Honorary Curator of Rare Books) will consider how the events of the Henry VI plays relate – or do not relate – to actual historical events, and why Part I is so stylistically different from Parts 2 and 3. He will make clear the enormous complexities of the plays, and suggest why they might be more accurately described by their Sixteenth century titles, Harey the Sixt, The Whole Contention of the Houses of Lancaster and York, and The True Tragedie of Richard Duke of York. John Wolfson will be assisted in his talk by Globe actors.

Blue Stockings

Thursday 12 September

Set at Girton College, Cambridge in 1896, Blue Stockings follows four of the country’s first female students through suffrage and jaw-dropping prejudice in their fight for education. Jessica Swale, 2010 Globe Associate Director, returns to the globe and gives her perspective on the real-life history and influences behind her first play as a writer. 

The Lightning Child

Tuesday 17 September

From the team who brought the ground-breaking The Frontline to the Globe in 2008 and 2009, The Lightning Child is a modern take on Euripides’ The Bacchae, combining cross-dressing, drug abuse, internet porn and classical myth. Che Walker discusses the influences behind his modern re-mix of the Greek tragedy.

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