A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant & A Prayer is a collection of stories collated by Eve Ensler, of the Vagina Monologues. This piece is gifted to the theatre community every year to raise funds and awareness against violence, supporting women, for the improvement of our world. We invite you into our “living room” to...
This delightful, farcical comedy of young – and older – love begins with the attempts of Jack and Charley, two Oxford undergraduates, to meet up with the young women, Kitty and Amy, whom they love and hope to marry. The young women do not know this, however, and are shortly to leave town for the...
Two queens, cousins and enemies. As part of the 2016 Otago Festival of the Arts the Globe presents this famous political thriller about the last days of Mary Queen of Scots. It will be a premier production of a new adaptation by Dunedin author and historian Keith Scott. Keith Scott talks on Otago Access Radio...
The Southern Regional Round of Theatre New Zealand’s one act play festival will take place at the Globe Theatre Dunedin on Saturday 20 August. This the first time in some years a sage of this national festival has been held in Dunedin and the newly renovated Globe is delighted to be hosting it. Three plays...
Great value school holiday fun. While on the bear hunt we come across Alice in Wonderland, the Tortoise and the Hare and some pesky rabbits. An hour long adventure with lots of audience interaction. Kids, make sure you bring your favourite teddy along!
Based on what is found in a box of playthings, actors create fun and interactive stories for the children to enjoy and become involved in. This is fun, fast paced theatre that will be enjoyed by the young and the young at heart and challenge imaginations. All performances 2.00 pm
The Globe will mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death with its first ever production of this comedy of mistaken identity. The farce and knockabout is timeless. But its darker themes also hold relevance in today’s world.
A trivial comedy for serious people. A glittering gala season of this much loved comedy will welcome theatregoers back to a much improved Globe. This timeless play of high farce and brim full of the famous Wilde wit is sure to enchant.
Appropriately for the on-set of the “silly season”, our 2015 season will end with a very silly play indeed. But we mean that in a good way. This is a farcial paradoy of the 1920s pulp hero Bulldog Drummond, the central character in a series of crime novels that also spawned a series of silent...
It is often said that this was an overnight sensation when it premiered in London in 1956. That is not entirely true, but it was different and certainly ground breaking theatre. Set in a cramped Midlands bed-sit and not in a Mayfair parlour it was a savage attack on the stuffiness of 1950s Britain’s pompous...
