A Respectable Wedding by Bertolt Brecht & A Kind of Justice by Margaret Wood A Double Bill of One Act plays to showcase two young local directors – Thomas Makinson and Aaron Richardson. Together they present two contrasting plays about chaos – one comic, one tragic. Thursday 13, Friday 14 and Saturday 16 May 7.30pm...
By Tennessee WilliamsDirector: Joseph Cecchi One of the very first Globe productions (1961), this classic American play opens The Globe’s 60th Anniversary Season. This drama is a tour de force about love, bitterness and abandonment. With the Great Depression as the background of the play, its true tragedy is the isolation people feel when they...
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by Ben CrockerMusic and Lyrics by Richard Lamming Magical, Musical Madcap Fun for Family & Friends
“What’s the worst that could happen?” “Well, quite a lot actually”. Family was their greatest strength. Then the shoe dropped, the worst happened. Now what? The creature in the lake looms over a windswept west coast batch where a family is forced to face their fears, for better or worse.
The story of the last years of the life of William Larnach and his treacherous family living in “a castle of lies”. A rare chance to see this local legend presented on the stage in a work by award winning NZ playwright Michelanne Forster.
Ophelia – epitome of goodness, obedience, innocence and frailty – gets a right rollicking and going-over in Jean Betts’ reworking of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In this hilarious and cleverly-constructed play, Ophelia becomes an independent, assertive and confident heroine.
For the July school holidays the Globe Theatre presents its 2019 Toybox production “Red Riding Hood and Friends” Suitable for all the family!
The most accessible of Shakespeare’s political plays, a study of a conflicted character that only “Hamlet” eclipses, and the most exquisite verse ever written. In an exciting new treatment by Dunedin playwright Keith Scott, with costumes by Charmian Smith, set painting by Chris Vialle, this lavish production was a feast for the mind, ears and...
The opening show for 2019 is an American Theatre classic. Arthur Miller’s confronting allegorical play about the failure of the American Dream won 5 Tony Awards when it premiered in 1949 and has been constantly performed all over the world ever since. It was last staged at the Globe in 1975 so Willy Loman and...
