Globe Education Conference

‘Outside In / Inside Out: Shakespeare, the Globe and the Blackfriars’

Globe Education Conference 24-26 October 2008

Globe Education at Shakespeare’s Globe is organising a major conference in October in honour of Professor Andrew Gurr and to mark the 400th anniversary of the re-acquisition of the Blackfriars Playhouse. The event, which is being organised in partnership with the Blackfriars Theatre in Staunton, Virginia, will bring together renowned scholars and theatre practitioners in the field of Shakespeare and his playhouses to consider plays that were written for outdoors theatres that transferred to indoor theatres and vice versa.

In 1596 James Burbage converted part of an old monastery in Blackfriars into an indoor theatre. This was a small, candlelit space meant to entertain the wealthiest citizens and aristocracy. Shakespeare's company moved into this theatre in 1609 and may have performed exclusively there in the winter and at the Globe in the summer. The Blackfriars Theatre in Stanton is a re-creation of this theatre. The second part of the conference will be held there in Autumn 2009.

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