Pop-Up Globe: Run extended (again!)

The performance run at the Pop-Up Globe has been extended for a second time, to Sunday 8th May. Tickets for these extra performances of Twelfth Night and Romeo and Juliet go on sale tomorrow, Monday 18th April, at 11am.

Let us hope the weather improves... ;)

"For the rain it raineth every day..." (Feste's song, Twelfth Night)

While we wait for the rain to stop, here are some Pop-Up stats, courtesy of the NZ Herald:

• Dates: February 19 - May 8

• Shows: 10 (Pop-Up Globe Theatre Company: Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night; Visiting companies: Hamlet, Antony & Cleopatra, Titus, The Tempest, Henry V, Much Adoe about Nothing, Ugly Othello, Play On)

• Production companies: 9

• Actors: Over 160

• Performances: 128

• Tickets sold: Over 80,000

• School students attended: 20,000

• Guided tours of the theatre: 50

• Professional development workshops: 26

• Flag changes at the Pop-up Globe Theatre: 60

• Specially constructed onion dome roof adornment: 1


Pop-Up Globe Theatre Company

• Cast: 15

• Characters played: 49

• Musicians: 5

• Production team: 32

• Volunteer ushers: 521

• Stage combat tutors: 1

• Litres of stage blood in Romeo & Juliet fights: 47

• Litres of bubble fluid in Twelfth Night special effects: 63

• Bubble machines for Twelfth Night special effects: 17

• Lemons used in lemon tea for actors: 164

• Hours of gig rehearsals: 50

• Approx. audience members flirted with by cast during performances of Romeo & Juliet: 280

• Audience members spattered by stage blood: 105

Source: Patrice Dougan, "Pop Up Globe season extended," New Zealand Herald, accessed April 17th, 2015, http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11623996.