On our trip to London we went to see "The Tempest", a great play by William Shakespeare - and what better place is there to watch this than in the original (-ish for it is only a reconstruction of the one one that burned down in 1613) Globe Theater?
The Globe Theater is definitely worth a visit. Don't let the modern glass facade fool you, as soon as you step through the door thou might'st start speaking in an old-fashioned manner, for thou feel'st as in 1599.
There is a small inner courtyard with amazing views. As you can see in the background St Paul's Cathedral is pretty close with the Thames in between (which you can not see here).
The inside looks stunning! Unfortunately we had standing places, so the vision was relatively limited but it was still spectacular. There is one small little detail I don't understand though. WHY ON EARTH is there an open-air theater in London? LONDON. Famous for its good weather and rare precipitations. We were lucky that day, because it was mostly sunny, but as soon as the sun goes down it gets really cold!!
The pictures are pretty bad, but that might eventually be due to the fact that it might or might not have been very accepted to take photos there and I shot a few in a hurry by accidentally pressing the camera button...
From the outside the theater looks also very traditional. The play was very well staged with beautiful costumes and very good actors! Thank god I read the play beforehand though. If you go in just like that you might understand very little and, as it usually is with Shakespeare, that little is not necessarily logical...
Que dicessssss! Me encanta!
ReplyDeletejajaj may or may have not xD wiee cool das matoh im globe-theater war. Das errinert ireonh an das Blatt mit Shakespear-Schimpfwörtern das Matoh Irenoh gegeben hat :D und an den awesome comic von Matoh!
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