Pop-up Globe

The second Globe Theatre, London, as drawn by Wencelas Hollar in the 1630s
Pop-up Globe, Auckland CBD 2016
Aerial view of Pop-up Globe at Ellerslie Racecourse, Winter 2017

Pop-up Globe was a New Zealand theatre production company, based in Auckland, New Zealand. It produced Jacobean theatre, particularly the works of Shakespeare, in specially-built temporary replicas of the second Globe, the theatre Shakespeare and his company built and used. The company's theatre was the world's first full-scale reconstruction of the Second Globe Theatre (1614–44).

Between 2015 and 2020, Pop-up Globe attracted audiences of approximately 748,000 people to predominantly Shakespeare productions across New Zealand and Australia, constructing five temporary Pop-up Globe playhouses in four cities.

The company constructed the first Pop-up Globe in Auckland CBD, next to the Auckland Town Hall, from February–May 2016; Pop-up Globe's second season ran from 23 February to 17 May 2017 in a newly designed and constructed Pop-up Globe at Ellerslie Racecourse in Auckland.[1]

Pop-up Globe's first international season, promoted by Live Nation Entertainment, ran from 21 September to 3 February 2018 in an area of Kings Domain adjacent to the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne, Australia, which was temporarily called the Shakespeare Gardens.[2][3]

The company ceased all performances in March 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 Pandemic. A year later, in March 2021, with no foreseeable prospect of further international touring, the Pop-up Globe group of companies was put into liquidation.

  1. ^ "Pop-up Globe to rise in the gardens at Ellerslie Racecourse". stuff.co.nz. 25 October 2016. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
  2. ^ "Pop-up Globe Australia: About Overview". Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  3. ^ "Melbourne's Pop-Up Globe unleashes Shakespeare's plays as they were intended". The Age. 4 July 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2017.