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Spanish Armada. The debut play was Shakespeare's
Julius Caesar.
) You'll also learn how
they built the replica in modern times, using Elizabethan materials and techniques. Take
advantage of the touch screens to delve into specific topics.
You must
tour the theater
at the time stamped on your ticket, but you can come back
to the Exhibition museum afterward. A guide (usually an actor) leads you into the theater
to see the stage and the various seating areas for the different classes of people. You take
a seat and learn how the new Globe is similar to the old Globe (open-air performances,
standing-room by the stage, no curtain) and how it's different (female actors today, lights
for night performances, concrete floor). It's not a backstage tour—you don't see dressing
rooms or costume shops or sit in on rehearsals—but the guides are energetic, theatrical,
and knowledgeable, bringing the Elizabethan period to life.
