ISSUE 40: April 2019

Volunteer Steward MUCHABOUT STEWARDING ADO Newsletter

SPRINGTIME, SHAKESPEARE WALKS AND SUMMER SEASON! HELLO ALL AND WELCOME TO YOUR APRIL In our other iconic event, Shakespeare within the Abbey, visitors are encouraged EDITION OF MUCH ADO ABOUT STEWARDING! to roam around the site experiencing The end of March saw us say goodbye in many ways including a surprise flash fleeting, contemplative and intimate Playing the company of this year’s mob in the foyer performed by Fourth encounters with Shakespeare’s drama, Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank Choir. Audiences seemed to enjoy the poetry, dance and song beneath the soaring production of . Across performance as much as we did with ribs of the magnificent Westminster the 32 performances we welcomed over feedback including ‘#AfterEdward is such Abbey. These events would not be able 41,000 visitors into our ‘wooden ‘O’’ a cathartic, thought-provoking piece. A to take place without the support of to experience the explosive entrance beautiful sublimation of influences into stewards. Do let us know if you would like through the trap at the start of the compelling moving art.’ to be involved as we would love to have performance, Prince Escalus’s entrance your help! Last year Alison Yates said that through heaven on a helicopter and Ahead of the official start of the Summer she loved the walk and found it beautiful final moments of the jig complete with Season we are excited to be hosting and stimulating as well as wonderfully confetti cannons. An amazing 27,500 of our annual events to commemorate entertaining from the Sonneteers. Shakespeare’s birthday. Formerly known our visitors enjoyed performances for We can’t quite believe a whole year has as the Sonnet Walks, Shakespeare Walks free as part of our subsidised schools passed since the start of Michelle Terry’s are a unique event which have taken performances. Thank you to all of you inaugural season at the Globe and are place annually over the past 25 years. who braved the winter weather and rallied excited to be embarking on a year of Visitors are handed a rose at the start of together to keep our liveliest audience of history plays. To celebrate the start of the a two-hour walk through Shakespeare’s the year safe and happy. season we will be inviting you to attend London, brought alive by 22 actors. Walks our Welcome to the Season Party on the As April begins we are turning our start at either Westminster Abbey or Saturday 4 May. We hope that you will be attention towards the final moments of from the parish of Shoreditch where able to come together and meet some the Winter Season in which productions the original Theatre was built in 1576, of our new stewards, have fun and help of Richard II and Edward II have examined and walks finish at Shakespeare’s Globe. us usher in the new season. We will be ancestral relationships and notions Along the way visitors will stop off at sending an invite out with further details of identity, sexuality and desire along places in London that Shakespeare knew, After Edward shortly. We are looking forward to welcoming with , a daring new play. and encounter scenes, speeches and After Edward you back into the Globe very soon! was written in response to sonnets enacted in the streets, parks and Edward II and has delighted audiences squares of modern London. Best Wishes, Kate, Rosie, Jenny, Tasha, Carly, Natasha, Sandra and the Duty Managers 1 Team of the Month ACCESS

Previous Front of House Duty Manager always bumping into stewards Opi tells us about his new role as Access who had come to see shows. Assistant here at the Globe! In January 2014, the Playhouse Ten years ago, I used to work at the opened and I became a full time Duty Teatro Circo Price in Madrid. I first Manager here at the Globe. We quickly started working as a Production learnt that fainters were as common Assistant before taking on a new role in the Playhouse as the Globe! My as a Duty Manager. It was a small team passion for the Globe continued to of three and I am still in touch with the grow further as I became a Tour Guide. two colleagues that I worked with in performances being midnight I have now taken on a new role in the my time here. Sometimes I am lucky matinees! That year the season was Communications department, as the even to be invited to see a show and extended for another week, so after the Access Assistant working with David have some complementary popcorn End of Season Party I decided to stay Bellwood the Access Manager. We are in and beer! We used to host a variety of a bit longer and continue making the charge of making the Globe accessible events including concerts, conferences, most of an amazing experience. to all patrons and staff. Throughout my corporate events, dance, and of course, The following year, Celia offered me a time at the Globe I have experienced circus productions. The shape of the contract as a Duty Manager, so I came Dominic’s, Emma’s and now Michelle’s building is very similar to the Globe back again for the summer. After being eras, and other major changes. Whilst with the addition of a roof! welcomed by stewards and colleagues I miss my DM colleagues, Celia and I came to Shakespeare’s Globe in the alike I decided to permanently move Carly, the Volunteer Management Team summer of 2010 for a couple of months to London! This was the year of the and of course the Volunteer Stewards as an intern. I chose to volunteer as Olympics and at the Globe I worked as and I am delighted to still be around for an intern because I wanted to learn Duty Manager on the Globe to Globe accessible performances. Look out for more about how theatres operated Festival. This was before the Playhouse me in your briefings! I can use my BSL in . As a volunteer I did lots opened so during the winter I spent and my counselling skills in my new role, of stewarding with my favourite my time working at West End venues new times for the old Globe…

in London than the Globe on a 8 Tell us a funny story from your time sparkling summer evening, or the at the Globe: Titus with... cozy candlelight of the Playhouse During a production of 2014’s on a winter’s day. Andronicus, I was on Door 3, and a 4 Favourite Steward’s room biscuits? patron commented that he could tell QUESTIONS Shortbread! when the bloody parts were coming 5 Favourite duty? up, as all the stewards “stood up like 10Mieke meerkats” to watch for fainters. Doors 2 or 3, you’re always busy and That mental image pops into my have wonderful opportunities to mind every time I’m in the Yard. chat with patrons. 9 What’s your life mantra? 6 What has been your favourite production? ‘I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up 2009’s with Naomi where I needed to be.’ Frederick and Jack Laskey – that was Douglas Adams my first season, and it was amazing 10 If you could pass on one stewarding tip to to watch audience after audience other stewards, what would it be? respond to the jokes, whisper along Embrace it: the wind, the 1 Name with the well-known speeches, and cheer for love, even in the pouring rain, the sunshine, the Mieke Berg rain (I did a lot of Yard Steps shifts blanket folding, the coffee spilled from 2 Tea or coffee? that year ....). the Upper Gallery, Tea, taken ‘two and moo’ 7 If you could be any Shakespeare the laughs, the grumbles, What drew you into volunteering character who would you be 3 the tumbling cushion at the Globe? and why? towers, the song and As a London transplant, I was Mistress Page – she’s witty, dance – the Globe is looking at ways to meet new people has no time for nonsense, alive, and we are a but also contribute to the city I and has some fabulous moving part of it had chosen as my home. I don’t adventures with a great best – how lucky are we? think there’s a more magical place friend – what’s not to love?

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MOORE, McCARTHYISM AND MYTH-BUSTING: SAM WANAMAKER’S TAPES Since the start of February, I have had the privilege of cataloguing audio material newly digitised through the generosity of The Pilgrim Trust, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and the family of Belinda Morse. The original reel-to-reel tapes were variously commissioned, ordered, made and owned by Sam Wanamaker. From the inaugural events of the Globe Playhouse Trust onwards, it was quite clear that Sam’s vision for the library aspect of his project included an audio archive of lectures and events, as well as performances, and it is gratifying to feel that the recent digitisation makes who was subject to surveillance. Another was a recording of a pair this material accessible just as he had intended. of radio broadcasts of Laura Riding’s ‘Four Unposted Letters to Catherine’, read by his wife, Charlotte Holland. After one of the first Globe Playhouse Trust lectures, Sam discusses a recent visit to the site by the sculptor Two tapes derived from a recorded interview with Michael Henry Moore, who had agreed to donate a sculpture. Ahead of Billington ahead of the first John Player Season in 1972. his time, as usual, Sam speculated that this could be installed Here, Sam asserts that he had planned to attend the first down on the foreshore where it would be covered and World Shakespeare Congress the previous year, but that unveiled by the tides, over a quarter of a century before work commitments had prevented him, thereby busting Antony Gormley’s first iteration of ‘Another Place’. the myth propagated since Barry Day’s ‘This Wooden O’ that Sam had been present. In fact, the Congress Other treasures include mix-tapes of broadcast or commercially spokesperson for the project was Glynne Wickham. recorded material. One of these was sent home to “for both of you and Mummy as well” and features Sam Wanamaker If you would like more information on the tapes or would introducing content from recordings of the blacklisted folk like to listen to them, please contact us at singer Susan Reed, and his fellow Illinoisan Carl Sandburg, [email protected] Best wishes, Dr Philip Milnes-Smith (Project Cataloguer)

Meet Adeliza the laundress Jane Haysom tells us about his burial place. However the Abbey another volunteer role a fell victim to Henry VIII and Cromwell, world away from the Globe! and Henry’s body is somewhere in the ‘ God give you good morrow. grounds waiting to be re-discovered, My name is Goodwife Stone, rather like Richard III. and my Christian name is How could I resist? I filled out the Adeliza. The year is 1200. application form, was interviewed and I work as a laundress here at had two auditions before being cast Reading Abbey, washing clothes as the laundress. We all had a day’s and bedding for the monks?’ training, rehearsals and my dress was What a great way to start a conversation made for me. Last summer over 18,000 with a complete stranger! It is such people came to the re-opening of the fun being Adeliza the Laundress. In Abbey Ruins, which had been closed this time travelling world I get to dress to the public for many years. It was our up in a replica of a period costume, Big Day. We now also turn up for key with a length of fabric tied around my community events in the Reading year, head, and speak to people about my and the team is being enlarged. imaginary life and work Reading Abbey was a very important Do you do any additional volunteering I saw a short article in the local place of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages. outside of the Globe? If so we would newspaper appealing for volunteers to It had been founded in 1121 by Henry I, love to hear from you. Please email dress up as key figures from Reading’s as a memorial to his son and heir who [email protected] if history last Spring, participating in died in the White Ship disaster. He you would be interested in writing the re-opening of the Abbey Ruins. made it a Royal Abbey and it became about your experiences!

3 Dates for your Diary... April & May Read below for all your must–have dates for the month ahead:

April May

Tu e Shakespeare Walks Workshop Thu Steward Drop-in: Open to All! 16 VOLUNTEER STEWARDS ONLY 2 CROSBY & HOPE CAFÉ, SACKLER STUDIOS Tuesday 16 April Thursday 2 May, 5.00pm – 6.00pm

Thu Pre-Season Steward Drop-in: Fri First Globe Trilogy Day

18 Open to All! 3 GLOBE THEATRE CROSBY & HOPE CAFÉ, SACKLER STUDIOS Friday 3 May. 11.00am – 11.00pm Thursday 18 April, 5.00pm – 6.00pm

Sat Volunteer Welcome Party Sat Shakespeare Walks 4 PARK STREET 20 SHOREDITCH AND WESTMINSTER Saturday 4 May, 4.00pm – 6.00pm Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 April

Sat Globe on Tour Opening Night GLOBE THEATRE Tu e Henry IV Part I Opening Night 4 23 GLOBE THEATRE Saturday 4 May, 7.30pm Tuesday 23 April, 7.30pm

Wed July and August Globe 4 shift cap

Thu Henry IV Part 2 Opening Night 8 GLOBE THEATRE 25 GLOBE THEATRE Wednesday 8 May, 1.00pm Thursday 25 April, 7.30pm

Thu Steward Drop-in: Open to All! Thu Shakespeare within the Abbey 16 CROSBY & HOPE CAFÉ, SACKLER STUDIOS 25 WESTMINSTER ABBEY Thursday 16 May, 5.00pm – 6.00pm Thursday 25, Friday 26, Saturday 27 April, 6.30pm and 8.30pm Fri The Merry Wives of Windsor Opening Night 17 GLOBE THEATRE Friday 17 May. 7.30pm

CAP Wed Henry IV Part 1 22 GLOBE THEATRE Wednesday 22 May, 7.30pm

Sun July and August Globe cap release 26 GLOBE THEATRE Sunday 26 May, 4.00pm

Thu Steward Drop-in: Open to All! 30 CROSBY & HOPE CAFÉ, SACKLER STUDIOS Thursday 30 May, 5.00pm – 6.00pm

Dates and times of audio described, signed, captioned and relaxed performances are shown with the following icons: AD BSL CAP R

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James stewarding on the Groundling Gates on Red Nose Day!

The 2019 Focus Group’ If you have any feedback that you would like to be discussed in our Focus Group meetings please speak to a member Terry looked after guide dog Rosie on our of the team or complete a feedback form in the Stewards Room. Edward II Audio Described performance of

Rosie and Ann at Door two on one Playing Shakespeare of our wetter More than 41,000 came to experience with Deutsche Bank Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank Playing Shifts Here is the Fourth Choir performing their moving the family shows and more than 27.5k, almost to the 14k free to Liberation arrangement of by Pet Shop Boys for schools performances. This really was a whole After Edward in the foyer at the end of . team ‘One Globe’ celebration and on a daily basis a joy to see staff from across the organisation working together on this project to get the thousands of school pupils through the gates and into the theatre. Primarily through, a great success in encouraging young people to engage with Balmy summer evenings on the piazza Shakespeare and all that it brings. And of course an extra special thank you to our are making their return! volunteer stewards who helped each and every front of house experience run smoothly. We could not have done it with you.

Heart felt gratitude. Craig Hanlon-Smith – Interim Head of Learning. Steward Linda Shannon volunteers at The Rose and would like to share two exciting opportunities: The Rose are holding the fifth Readathon on Saturday 11 May from 12.00am – 7.00pm. Six plays, Dr Faustus The Dream, Jew of Malta, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, and have been cut down to an hour each and participants draw their role out of a hat. Audiences can come and watch the fun as the performers (professional and amateur alike) tead at sight. Cushion Cart 3 has been given a roof Full details and booking on The Rose’s website: ready in time for the summer season! All proceeds will go to the to The Rose Revealedroseplayhouse.org.uk project.

CONTACT US... Email: [email protected] In Person: At our monthly drop-in’s at Crosby & Special Thanks This is the only inbox monitored Hope Café throughout the Winter Season. for your contributions to... 7 days a week. Dates are listed in our Dates for the Diary section. Javier Perez Opi, Mieke Berg, Call: 020 7902 1531 Feedback, Compliments or Concerns: Dr Phillip Mines-Smith, (Feel free to leave a voicemail Please feel free to contact Rosie on James Cuffe, if nobody is able to pick up) 2019 Focus Group, [email protected] or Kate on Text: 07503 984 933 Terry Pope, George Gallaccio, (Use this if you are running [email protected] if you have Linda Shannon, Rosie Lawton, late and on the move!) anything to talk to us about specifically that is Ann McKenzie and regarding something more sensitive. Craig Hanlon-Smith

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