London Theatres by Michael Coveney and Peter Dazeley

Author:Michael Coveney and Peter Dazeley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Limited
Published: 2020-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

The theatre sits by the Thames on the South Bank.

Crosby’s Globe designs began to be realised when a public appeal yielded sufficient money. 2,500 flagstones surround the theatre, each sold at a cost of £300 to celebrities, actors and supporters whose names are inscribed on them. The stroke of genius was to make an unexpected appointment of a brilliant actor, Mark Rylance, whose determination to investigate ‘authentic’ practice in music and staging was informed by a muscular, contemporary sensitivity, and a sort of crowd-pleasing but minimally coy method of communication, every show, the lightest comedy or darkest tragedy, ending with a company jig that sealed the deal with the audience. Rylance led for ten years by example, showing how to play intimately and naturally to a large house, experimenting with gender swaps – women were played by boys in Shakespeare’s day and his writing is suffused with gusty sexual innuendo and a sort of amphibian ambiguity – but Rylance further complicated the sexual reverberations by having Vanessa Redgrave play Prospero in The Tempest, or an all-female cast play The Taming of the Shrew. He himself played Olivia in Twelfth Night, Cleopatra, Hamlet and Richard III to critical acclaim, and directed the company overall, and in specific productions, in each of his ten seasons in charge.

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