300px, The reconstructed Globe in London
The Shakespeare's Globe Centres are international centres for theatrical education and for the promotion of the
Shakespeare's Globe
Shakespeare's Globe is a reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse for which William Shakespeare wrote his plays, in the London Borough of Southwark, on the south bank of the River Thames. The original theatre was built in ...
in London, their nucleus organisation.
Shakespeare Globe Centre Canada
The Shakespeare Globe Centre of Canada was founded in
Toronto
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in 1985 by
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and
Lyle Blair
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as a not-for-profit organisation, with a board including
John Orrell
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and
Christopher Plummer
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.
Shakespeare Globe Centre Germany
The SGC (Shakespeare Globe Zentrum Deutschland) was founded in 1991 after
Sam Wanamaker
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experienced the
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's productions of ''
The Taming of the Shrew
''The Taming of the Shrew'' is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592. The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken ...
'' and ''
Antony and Cleopatra
''Antony and Cleopatra'' ( First Folio title: ''The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra'') is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The play was first performed, by the King's Men, at either the Blackfriars Theatre or the Globe Theatre in arou ...
'' at the Globe Theatre in
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and directed by the company's co-founder
Norbert Kentrup
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* Norbert Angermann (born 1936), German historian
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. It was officially registered in December 2000, and its boardmembers include Kentrup,
Dagmar Papula
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* D ...
,
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(SET) and Dr.
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.
Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand
Sam Wanamaker
Samuel Wanamaker, (born Wattenmacker; June 14, 1919 – December 18, 1993) was an American actor and director who moved to the United Kingdom after becoming fearful of being blacklisted in Hollywood due to his communist views. He is credited as ...
visited New Zealand in 1990, and the Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand was founded in
Wellington
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the following year by
Dawn Sanders
Dawn Jane Sanders is a New Zealand theatre scholar, and the founder and current CEO of the Shakespeare's Globe Centre New Zealand. She received the 2006 Sam Wanamaker Award for her foundation of this centre.
In the 1992 New Year Honours, San ...
. Through it, the Wellington Shakespeare Society contributed what are now called the New Zealand Hangings, tapestries for scenery at the Globe.
Shakespeare Globe Centre USA
The Shakespeare Globe Centre USA, in
New York City
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, was the first to be founded, in 1974, as a launchpad for the reconstruction of the Globe Theatre in London.
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