Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre pops up in the east

ALL the world’s a stage … and now Moore Park’s Entertainment Quarter will become one when a full-scale working replica of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre opens in the east in spring.

Shakespeare's Pop-up replica Globe Theatre.

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ALL the world’s a stage … and now Moore Park’s Entertainment Quarter will become one when a full-scale working replica of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre opens in the east in spring.

The pop-up Globe will run four of Shakespeare’s beloved classics over six weeks in a setting Sydneysiders have never seen before.

The pop-up Globe is a full size replica of the famous Shakespeare theatre.

The Entertainment Quarter’s Show Ring will house the replica theatre, modelled on the illustrious Globe that Shakespeare and his company built and opened in 1614 after the first version of the theatre burned down.

Pop-up Globe founder and artistic director Dr Miles Gregory said audiences “will be blown away”.

“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 seen before,” Dr Gregory said. “This isn’t dusty Shakespeare. This is now. Alive. Like a party.”

Actors performing at Shakespeare's Globe replica pop-up theatre.

The Pop-up Globe is a three-storey, 16-sided, 900-capacity theatre, capped with an “onion dome”.

The productions will feature spectacular theatrical trickery from the Jacobean era including gruesome battles, litres of fake blood, hand forged armoury, and more than 450 bespoke period costumes.

The spectacular festival of Shakespeare will feature four of the Bard’s blockbusters — the magical fantasy A Midsummer Night’s Dream, comedy The Merchant of Venice, blood-soaked tragedy Macbeth and riotous slapstick The Comedy of Errors.

The Pop-up Globe has proved hugely popular in Melbourne and Auckland.

The Pop-up Globe will arrive in Sydney after critically-acclaimed seasons in Melbourne seen by 150,000 people and sellout success in Auckland.

The Sydney season will begin on September 5.

Bookings: popupglobe.com.au or via Ticketmaster.

The theatre has ornate sets and framework.