Twelfth Night Festival
Monday December 31, 2007
Date: Sunday 6 January 2008
Time: 12.45pm
Venue: Outside Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
Twelfth Night is an annual seasonal celebration held in the Bankside area of London. It is a celebration of the New Year, mixing ancient seasonal customs with contemporary festivity. It is free, accessible to all and happens whatever the weather.
At 2pm on Sunday 6 January 2008, you can join in with some informal readings of the Shakespeare play canon in Nancy Knowles Lecture Theatre, within the Globe Theatre. Each reader picks a part out of a hat at the start of each Act. Tickets: £2 (£1 concessions)
You can read the Twelfth Night program on the official website but this the gist:
1. The Green Man arrives on the River Thames by boat.
2. He and the actors toast the people, the River Thames, and The Globe Theatre
The actors, knowns as Mummers, perform a freestyle Folk Combat Play of St. George, featuring the Turkey Sniper, Clever Legs, the Old 'Oss and many others.
3. Cakes distributed at the end of the play have a bean and a pea hidden in two of them. Those who find them are hailed King and Queen for the day and crowned with ceremony.
4. King Bean and Queen Pea lead the people through the streets to the historic George Inn in Borough High Street for a fine warming up with Storytelling, the Kissing Wishing Tree and more Dancing.
Time: 12.45pm
Venue: Outside Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
Twelfth Night is an annual seasonal celebration held in the Bankside area of London. It is a celebration of the New Year, mixing ancient seasonal customs with contemporary festivity. It is free, accessible to all and happens whatever the weather.
At 2pm on Sunday 6 January 2008, you can join in with some informal readings of the Shakespeare play canon in Nancy Knowles Lecture Theatre, within the Globe Theatre. Each reader picks a part out of a hat at the start of each Act. Tickets: £2 (£1 concessions)
You can read the Twelfth Night program on the official website but this the gist:
1. The Green Man arrives on the River Thames by boat.
2. He and the actors toast the people, the River Thames, and The Globe Theatre
The actors, knowns as Mummers, perform a freestyle Folk Combat Play of St. George, featuring the Turkey Sniper, Clever Legs, the Old 'Oss and many others.
3. Cakes distributed at the end of the play have a bean and a pea hidden in two of them. Those who find them are hailed King and Queen for the day and crowned with ceremony.
4. King Bean and Queen Pea lead the people through the streets to the historic George Inn in Borough High Street for a fine warming up with Storytelling, the Kissing Wishing Tree and more Dancing.
Great article, I loved the twelfth night festival and have included it in my list of things to do for January which can be found on my What is on in London page