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TATE MODERN
Tate to Tate
The Tate Boat shuttles between Tate Britain and Tate Modern every forty minutes; jour-
ney time is twenty minutes (£6.50).
SHAKESPEARE'S GLOBE THEATRE
21 New Globe Walk Southwark or London Bridge 020 7902 1400, www.shakespearesglobe.com . Daily
9am-5.30pm.Exhibition £13.50. MAP
Dwarfed by the Tate Modern, but equally remarkable in its own way, Shakespeare's Globe
Theatre is an open-air reconstruction of the polygonal playhouse where most of the Bard's
later works were first performed. Sporting the first new thatched roof in central London
since the 1666 Great Fire, the theatre puts on plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries,
both outside and in the new indoor candle-lit theatre . To find out more about Shakespeare
and Bankside, visit the Globe's stylish exhibition , whose imaginative hands-on displays
really hit the spot. Visitors also get taken on an informative half-hour guided tour round the