London's Brave New Globe

摘要

"I'm sorry, you can't go to the loo before the queen arrives," says the ush-er. You don't hear that on Broadway. Last week the theater officially called Shakespeare's Globe had its gala opening in London. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip arrived in true Elizabethan fashion—by royal barge on the Thames. The reconstruction of the sacred shrine of English theater, the original Globe built in 1599, took four years and cost $13 million. Mark Rylance, the 36-year-old artistic director of the Globe company, called the theater "revolutionary."