SCENE BY JAMES: The Pop-up Globe Experience
[A Worthy Scaffold] The original Globe theatre has a terrific origin story. Shakespeare and co were leasing ‘The Theatre’ in Shoreditch, but they didn’t like their landlord. A careful reading of the lease revealed that while they didn’t own the land, they did own the playhouse. A few days after a white Christmas of 1598, the acting company turned up […]