2012 Season Announcement
Shakespeare’s Globe welcomes back multi award-winning actor Mark Rylance to perform in its 2012 Theatre Season.
The main theatre season, begins on 7 June 2012 with Dominic Dromgoole’s new production of Henry V. After touring the UK, Henry V, with Jamie Parker (Henry IV Parts 1 & 2) as the King, will come home to the Globe.
Mark Rylance will take on the title role in a new production of Richard III and a reprisal of his widely celebrated performance of Olivia in Twelfth Night. He will be joined by Johnny Flynn (Jerusalem, front man of folk rock band Johnny Flynn’), Samuel Barnett (The History Boys, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead), Colin Hurley (Anne Boleyn, All’s Well That Ends Well), Liam Brennan (A View From The Bridge, Othello, The Lieutenant of Inishmore ) and Peter Hamilton Dyer ( Anne Boleyn, All’s Well that Ends Well, Henry VIII).
Also joining the cast of Twelfth Night as Malvolio is Stephen Fry (recent screen credits include Sherlock Holmes II, Bleak Old Shop of Stuff, Q.I., Bones).
The Globe’s main house programme is completed by a new production of The Taming of the Shrew with double Olivier award-winner, Samantha Spiro taking the role of the formidable Katherina.
Touring the UK in 2012 is the award-winning Anne Boleyn.
The Globe will continue its popular tradition of small-scale touring with revivals of its 2011 productions of Hamlet and As You Like It.
The main theatre season, begins on 7 June 2012 with Dominic Dromgoole’s new production of Henry V. After touring the UK, Henry V, with Jamie Parker (Henry IV Parts 1 & 2) as the King, will come home to the Globe.
Mark Rylance will take on the title role in a new production of Richard III and a reprisal of his widely celebrated performance of Olivia in Twelfth Night. He will be joined by Johnny Flynn (Jerusalem, front man of folk rock band Johnny Flynn’), Samuel Barnett (The History Boys, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead), Colin Hurley (Anne Boleyn, All’s Well That Ends Well), Liam Brennan (A View From The Bridge, Othello, The Lieutenant of Inishmore ) and Peter Hamilton Dyer ( Anne Boleyn, All’s Well that Ends Well, Henry VIII).
Also joining the cast of Twelfth Night as Malvolio is Stephen Fry (recent screen credits include Sherlock Holmes II, Bleak Old Shop of Stuff, Q.I., Bones).
The Globe’s main house programme is completed by a new production of The Taming of the Shrew with double Olivier award-winner, Samantha Spiro taking the role of the formidable Katherina.
Touring the UK in 2012 is the award-winning Anne Boleyn.
The Globe will continue its popular tradition of small-scale touring with revivals of its 2011 productions of Hamlet and As You Like It.
Read our 2012 season brochure below, or download it from the right hand column.
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