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2009 Theatre Season
'Not just theatre but the capital at its very best'
Sunday Telegraph*
The Globe Theatre is a faithful reconstruction of the open-air playhouse first built in 1599, where Shakespeare worked and for which he wrote many of his greatest plays.
Each year the theatre season runs from April to October with productions of the work by Shakespeare and modern authors, and plays to an audience of 350,000 who experience the ‘wooden O’ sitting in a gallery or standing as a groundling in the yard, just as they would have done 400 years ago.
Romeo & Juliet
Love of love
23 April - 23 August
Directed by Dominic Dromgoole
The Frontline
Love of life
5 - 23 May
Directed by Matthew Dunster
'Filthy, elaborate, luscious' Observer
As You Like It
Love in disguise
30 May - 10 October
Directed by Thea Sharrock
Troilus & Cressida
Love and war
12 July - 20 September
Directed by Matthew Dunster
Helen by Frank McGuinness
Love and loss
2 - 23 August
Directed by Deborah Bruce
A New World by Trevor Griffiths
Love and truth
29 August - 9 October
Directed by Dominic Dromgoole
A Life of Thomas Paine
Love's Labour's Lost
Love and lust
25 September - 10 October
Directed by Dominic Dromgoole
'Entirely enchanting' The Times