For its second production of 2025, The Globe Theatre Dunedin presents William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew in a gender-fluid, queer, 1990s farcical fever-dream from director Thomas Makinson, inspired by the Commedia dell’arte tradition and 10 Things I Hate About You.
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The multi-award winning Globe Theatre is one of Dunedin’s foremost community theatres, begun by Patric and Rosalie Carey in 1961 when they extended the drawing room of their 1860’s London St home to create an intimate 30 seat theatre. This was later enlarged into the current 70 seat theatre. The Globe can claim many firsts, including the Australasian premiere of Samuel Becket’s Waiting for Godot, being the birthplace of the plays of James K Baxter and premiering other local playwrights.
Theatre in Dunedin has changed since 1961 and the Globe has changed with it, producing a varied annual season of modern and classic plays of all genres.
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