Events

This spring we explore the impact Wittenberg had on early-modern English drama

In 1517 Martin Luther nailed The Ninety-Five Theses onto the door of the Castle Church of Wittenberg. The document is regarded as the catalyst for the Protestant Reformation.

Last autumn we claimed that Shakespeare is German and explored the extraordinary influence Shakespeare has had on German drama and culture. This spring we explore the impact Wittenberg had on early-modern English drama.

Hamlet and Horatio were both students at the University of Wittenberg, where Luther had been a Professor of Theology, and where Marlowe’s fictional Doctor Faustus was a teacher. Both Hamlet and Doctor Faustus will be staged at the Globe during the 2011 season.

While only referred to in the play, the university is depicted in the remarkable 1920 silent film of Hamlet starring Asta Nielsen. The film will be screened at the BFI in January with live music composed by Claire van Kampen, played by six musicians.

In a series of lectures at the Globe, Frank Günther will discuss the art and politics of translating Shakespeare’s plays into German with particular reference to Hamlet. Professor Ewan Fernie and Dr Adrian Streete will explore the relationship between Shakespeare’s Theatre and the Protestant Reformation.

The season also includes a reading of David Davalos’ Wittenberg which wittily imagines conversations between Luther, Doctor Faustus and Hamlet at the university.

Our three annual March productions take us further afield. Macbeth will be staged for the Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank project; Rutgers’ students will take us to Illyria in Twelfth Night and over 400 Southwark Primary and Secondary students will inhabit Prospero’s Island in The Tempest.

Tickets are on sale for the annual Sam Wanamaker Festival, involving over 40 students from British drama schools and ending with one mighty festive jig.

The 2011 Theatre Season, The Word is God, marks the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible. A complementary series of events, The Heard Word: Pulpit vs Playhouse, will run throughout the year.

I hope you choose this playhouse.

Patrick Spottiswoode Director, Globe Education

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Luthers Anschlag der 95 Thesen (1873) by Ferdinand Wilhelm Pauwels Image courtesy of Die Wartburg-Stiftung (Wartburg Foundation)

Thursday 10 February Frank Günther

The inaugural lecture in a series which will celebrate and explore how Shakespeare has been translated into over 90 languages.

Frank Günther is the leading translator of Shakespeare in Germany today. He will explore the opportunities and compromises he has encountered when translating Shakespeare in general, and Hamlet in particular.

Thursday 17 February Dr Adrian Streete (Queen’s University Belfast)

Hamlet famously studies at Wittenberg, Martin Luther’s university. The Prince’s discussion of the ‘providence’ that attends the ‘fall of a sparrow’ may well have been influenced by the writings of French theologian John Calvin. How significant were the works of Luther and Calvin in Shakespeare’s England? How are the ideas of the Reformers debated in Shakespeare’s plays? Dr Adrian Streete will explore the fascinating and complicated relationship between Shakespeare’s theatre and the European Reformation.

Thursday 24 February Professor Ewan Fernie (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham)

The man who kick-started the Reformation, Martin Luther, infamously told his associate Melancthon to ‘sin bravely’. This talk will argue that some of the greatest heroes of Renaissance drama, including Faustus and Macbeth, do just that, and that Hamlet wallows in sin. It suggests energetic sinning is right at the heart of both the new Protestant spirituality and the most powerful and original plays that we have.

LECTUREs

Shakespeare’s Theatre and the Reformation

‘Sin bravely’: Luther, Faustus, Hamlet and Macbeth

Shakespeare’s Great Feast of Language Prepared by German Cooks

“Shakespeare, bless thee. Thou art translated.”

Shakespeare, Hamlet & Wittenberg

Shakespeare’s Globe is indebted to the Goethe-Institut London for their support of this lecture

ALL LECTURES

Time 19:00 – 21:00 including interval

Venue Nancy W Knowles Lecture Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe

Tickets £10

FoSG/concs/students £8

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Read Not Dead ‘performances with scripts’ provide unique opportunities to hear and see plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries, adaptations and sources, and modern plays inspired by his works. Globe Education has staged and recorded over 150 plays since the series began in 1995.

An inspiring and engaging seminar introduction to the Read Not Dead performance.

Read Not Dead RARELY PLAYED

SUNDAY 13 FEBRUARY By David Davalos UK Premiere

It is October 1517 in northern Germany. John Faustus (a philosophy professor) and Martin Luther (instructor in theology), and their star pupil, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark return to the University of Wittenberg for another autumn term. How these three men’s sagas overlap and intertwine and how they end up irrevocably affecting the course of each other’s lives is the substance of Wittenberg, a comedy which reveals the story behind the stories of Hamlet, Doctor Faustus and the Protestant Reformation. David Davalos will join the cast and director for a platform discussion after the reading.

Wittenberg (2008)

Time 15:00

Venue Globe Education, Sackler Studios

Tickets £8

FoSG/concs/students £6

SUNDAY 13 FEBRUARY The seminar will explore Marlowe’s Dr Faustus and Shakespeare’s Hamlet in light of the afternoon’s reading.

Wittenberg (2008)

Time 12:00 – 14:00

Venue Gather at the Globe Education Reception Desk in the Foyer

Tickets Includes ticket to the Read Not Dead performance £13

FoSG/concs/students £10

Wittenberger Stadtansicht vom Süden (1556) from the Cranach Painting Workshop Image courtesy of Stiftung Luther Gedenkstätten Sachsen-Anhalt (Luther Memorials Foundation of Saxony-Anhalt)

Saturday 5 March Friday 11 March

Over 14,000 students will receive free tickets to nine performances of Macbeth, Globe Education’s fifth annual professional production created especially for young people at the Globe.

Students from 30 London schools will receive free workshops. Free web resources, created especially for the project, supporting the study of Shakespeare at Key Stage 3 will be available to all.

The performances on 5 March and 11 March are free to members of the general public.

www.playingshakespeare.org

MACBETH Time 5 March 14:00 11 March 19:00

Venue Globe Theatre

Tickets Free Public booking for free performances opens Monday 21 February

PLAYING SHAKESPEARE WITH DEUTSCHE BANK

“I find it very exciting to be at the Globe and see a lot of children experiencing these plays without underselling the power of the original. They seem to completely love it, and I find that completely enjoyable and inspiring. It’s delightful to be present as people meet these plays for the first time.”Siobhan Redmond, Actress

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Thursday 17 March

The annual Our Theatre production has been Globe Education’s flagship community project since 1997.

This year students from 12 primary and secondary schools, and schools for students with additional needs, will work with their teachers and Globe Education Practitioners to create an ensemble performance recreating Prospero’s island on the Globe Stage.

Friday 25 March

Conservatory Acting students from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, spend their entire third year of study at Shakespeare’s Globe. The students take classes in acting, voice, movement, text, dance and fight, and immerse themselves in London life, history and culture. The students end their Globe residency with a performance on the Globe stage before returning to Rutgers for their final year of training. This year’s play, Twelfth Night, is directed by Timothy Walker.

THE TEMPEST TWELFTH NIGHT

Time 13:00

Venue Globe Theatre

Tickets Free A limited number of free tickets are available and must be booked in advance. Please email: community@shakespearesglobe.com

Time 18:30

Venue Globe Theatre

Tickets A limited number of free tickets are available for this workshop performance. Please email: courses@shakespearesglobe.com or call 020 7902 1469 for further information.

OUR THEATRE

Rutgers Conservatory at Shakespeare’s Globe

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Sunday 3 April

44 students from 22 of the UK’s leading drama schools and two Rutgers students gather together for a weekend of workshops before presenting 23 scenes by Shakespeare and his contemporaries on the Globe stage. The afternoon’s public performance provides a mix of tragical, historical, pastoral and comical duologues culminating in one mighty festive finale jig.

2011 SAM WANAMAKER FESTIVAL

Time 16:00

Venue Globe Theatre

Tickets Seating £10

Standing £5

In association with the Conference of Drama Schools

Supported by

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How to book

Calendar Spring 2011

Tickets for Globe Education public events must be booked through the Globe Box Office unless otherwise stated.

For all general Globe Education Events enquiries please call or visit Globe Education online.

online shakespearesglobe.com

by post Shakespeare’s Globe Box Office 21 New Globe Walk, Bankside, London SE1 9DT

by phone +44 (0)20 7401 9919

Opening hours 10:00 – 17:00

online globe-education.org

by phone +44 (0)20 7902 1400

27 18:45 Screening: Sven Gade’s Hamlet (1920) BFI Southbank, NFT1

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Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank: Macbeth

Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank: Macbeth

Our Theatre: The Tempest

Rutgers Conservatory: Twelfth Night

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Lecture: Shakespeare’s Great Feast of Language Prepared by German Cooks

Rarely Played: Wittenberg (2008)

Read Not Dead: Wittenberg (2008)

Lecture: Shakespeare’s Theatre and the Reformation

Lecture: ‘Sin bravely’: Luther, Faustus, Hamlet and Macbeth

Nancy W Knowles Lecture Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe

Globe Education, Reception Desk in the Foyer

Globe Education Sackler Studios

Nancy W Knowles Lecture Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe

Nancy W Knowles Lecture Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe