Shakespeare’s Globe 2013: “Season of Plenty”
This year, the Globe theatre offers us two amazing plays during our 3-week stay, plays which will showcase some of Shakespeare’s most engaging uses of the supernatural. In The Tempest, Roger Allam, whom some of us remember as a formidable and hilarious Falstaff in 2010, is set to shine as Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, and for those of you who follow the show Merlin, you’ll recognize young Colin Morgan when he takes the stage as the gender-bending Ariel.
We also get to see A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Dr. Banks’s favorite comedy. At night, a blue-black sky above the open circle of the Globe, there is simply no better way to see Shakespeare’s Dream. We traipse into the green world and watch as fairies unmake and remake our loves … and we get Puck! Last time the London group saw the Dream, we had an older, rather chubby Puck, one constantly out of breath and clearly frustrated with following Oberon’s wishes. I wonder what sort of Puck we’ll get this time? And how often he’ll come through the house?
If any of you are staying late, you might want to take in Macbeth, which begins the day we leave. It’s dark and tragic and full of blood, but maybe that’s what June calls for?
