PRESS RELEASE
GLOBE ON SCREEN
ARTS ALLIANCE MEDIA
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
GLOBE ON SCREEN RETURNS TO AUSTRALIA FOR WINTER 2013 WITH A SEASON OF TRIUMPHS, INCLUDING BOX OFFICE SENSATION TWELFTH NIGHT WITH STEPHEN FRY AND MARK RYLANCE
***Interview opportunities are available with key cast and creatives
including executive producer Robert Marshall based in Perth *** please contact olivia@nixco.com.au
AUSTRALIAN SCREENING DATES:
* HENRY V: From 1 June
* TWELFTH NIGHT: From 22/23 June
* THE TAMING OF THE SHREW: From 20/21 July
Australian audiences are in for a spectacular Shakespearean treat. Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, in partnership with Arts Alliance Media, bring three blockbusters from its award-winning 2012 theatre season to cinemas around Australia this winter. Following two hugely successful seasons in 2011 and 2012, this year's Globe on Screen features Henry V, The Taming of the Shrew and Olivier-nominated Twelfth Night – in cinemas from June 1.
PLAYING AT:
Cinema Paradiso – WA, Palace Kino – Victoria, Palace Cinema Como – Victoria,
Palace Brighton Bay – Victoria, Palace Balwyn – Victoria, Palace Nova Eastend – SA,
Palace Centro – Qld, Picture Show Man Cinema – NSW, Palace Chauvel – NSW,
Palace Byron Bay – NSW, Manly Cinema, Sydney – NSW, Cinemax Cinema – NSW,
Avoco Beach Picture Theatre – NSW and Palace Electric, Canberra – ACT
Australian theatre lovers can soon share another season of triumphs from the world's most famous stage – as if they were there in person. All three performances, captured live in Hi-Definition and presented in their entirety in pristine digital cinema quality, with full 5.1 surround sound.
Globe on Screen brings you the opportunity to see the Globe's sensational Twelfth Night – starring multiple Olivier and Tony Award winner Mark Rylance, and the incomparable Stephen Fry in what critics described as "sensational…pure comic delight". Directed by Tim Carroll, Twelfth Night was one of London theatre's biggest hits of summer 2012, completely selling out all of its performances at the Globe and creating queues around the block in the West End.
Critics raved about Mark Rylance's "dazzling high definition performances" lifted the production "into the sublime". Stephen Fry's turn as Malvolio
– his first return to the stage in 17 years – won him huge acclaim from critics and audiences and a WhatsOnStage Award for Best Supporting Actor, voted for by 60,000 members of the public.
The all-star cast also includes the multi-talented Johnny Flynn, a successful singer-songwriter and a talented actor who was nominated for an Olivier Award for his performance in the smash hit Jerusalem, and Roger Lloyd Pack, who played Barty Crouch in the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Twelfth Night is an all-male Globe 'Original Practices'
production that aims to replicate as closely as possible the music, costumes, dance and scenery of Shakespeare's time.
Henry V, Shakespeare's masterpiece on the turbulence of war and the arts of peace, is directed by the Globe's Artistic Director Dominic Dromgoole.
A perennial favourite at the Globe, the play is a profound and compelling exploration of the meaning of leadership, morality and common humanity in the midst of war. The essential English battle-drama drenched in some of the most famous and rousing speeches in the language. Jamie Parker returns to the Globe after his star turn as Prince Hal in Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 (to be featured later this year) and so completes Henry's journey from youth to adulthood.
The season concludes with The Taming of the Shrew. Shakespeare's notorious battle of the sexes gives us one of theatre's great screwball double-acts in the shape of Katherina and Petruchio – a couple hell-bent on mastering the other right up to the play's controversial conclusion. Director Toby Frow gives us "a riotous mixture of verbal dexterity and slapstick" in an exhilarating production that delighted Globe audiences. Katherina is played by the Olivier Award-winning Samantha Spiro.
The Globe on Screen website, with cinema listings, trailer and links to book tickets, can be found at
http://onscreen.shakespearesglobe.com/#/findvenue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcMA1Z7Shxk
HENRY V
"Bold and enthralling"
The Times
TWELFTH NIGHT
"Remarkable…superb"
The Independent
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
"A laugh out loud production"
Time Out