Voices in the new Globe
Abstracts
Actors who have played the new Globe in its first seasons talk of the theatre as pre-eminently a listening space. With no controlled lighting to tell the playgoers what to look at and when, with no elaborate set design to establish mood and place, and with no proscenium arch to frame what is happening on stage into a two-dimensional image to be viewed from a darkened auditorium, the play is forced back onto essentials : the words. How have actors responded to the challenges of the physical constraints and freedoms of a theatre that is made of unseasoned oak, held up by wooden pegs, is open to the skies, and encircles the stage platform where the voice, above all else on the stage, must create the play’s reality?
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Bibliographical reference
Pauline Kiernan, “Voices in the new Globe”, Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare, 17 | 1999, 159-172.
Electronic reference
Pauline Kiernan, “Voices in the new Globe”, Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare [Online], 17 | 1999, Online since 01 November 2007, connection on 22 January 2025. URL: http://0-journals-openedition-org.catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/shakespeare/387; DOI: https://0-doi-org.catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/10.4000/shakespeare.387
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