Globe's 400th Anniversary
Four
hundred years ago this month the Globe Theatre was under construction.
Last December Mark Rylance, the Globe's artistic director, took part in the re-enactment of the moving of the wooden materials from Shoreditch to Bankside. (The symbolic wood used last year will be turned into two seats for the Globe frontage.)
The first recorded performance on Bankside was on the afternoon of 21 September but it is believed that the theatre opened in the summer - September would have been too late in the year for the seasonal theatre.
The wooden building, which had been in use during 1598 on the Shoreditch site, could have been re-erected fairly quickly.
The very first play performed on the Bankside site was Julius Caesar which will again be playing this summer and twice on Tuesday 21 September.
