Romeo Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo

double double toil and trouble fire burn

and cauldron bubble these are just some

of the very famous lines from some very

famous plays written by one very famous

playwright and they were all originally

performed at one very famous theater the

globe the globe was first built in

London way way way back in 1599 by a

theatre company called the Lord

Chamberlain's Men and you've probably

heard of their playwright a guy called

William Shakespeare Shakespeare is a

bloke who 400 years ago sat down and

wrote a bunch of place and we're still

performing them today that none of

itself is an amazing thing yep and the

place that bloke wrote are some of the

most well known in history my favorite

would probably be back there Macbeth

handler Romeo and Juliet yeah I like

Romeo and Juliet because it's simple

everyone gets the idea of it and yeah

it's a cool story

another Shakespeare's plays continue to

inspire new movies all the time in fact

you've probably seen some of

Shakespeare's work without even

realizing

unfortunately the original globe burnt

down a few centuries ago they did build

another one though just around the

corner from the original which if you're

lucky enough you can visit one day and

see some of these iconic plays in action

but if you can't make it over there

don't worry because this guy has created

a full-size pop up version so

Australians can experience what it was

like to see a show back in Shakespeare's

day too so what we wanted to do was be

as close as possible in every way we

could to the experience of Shakespeare's

own theatre and what we found is that

when you replicate that experience boy

is it engaging it's a night like any

other

unforgettable there are a few big things

that make the globe really different to

anything you'd see today it has three

storeys of seating and can hold up to

3,000 people but at the base of the

stage there's an area called the pit

where people stand and watch the

performance although there's also no

roof so if you're standing you might

want to bring an umbrella just in case

there's like a rock concert instead of a

conventional theater experience there's

nothing button-down about it it's closer

to footie match than a piece of theatre

it's fantastic it's having this entire

building filled with 900 people

screaming and yelling and booing and

whoring and covered in blood

wait did he say blood ah don't worry

it's all fake

the pop-up globe has been popping up

around the country and now it's popped

up in Sydney where these guys say

audiences are sure to get an awesome

shakespeareans