#the globe

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

David Tennant talks about filming Good Omens and Doctor Who at the Globe

David Tennant at Fan Expo Dallas 2024, 9.6.2024

Fan: Two of your most iconic roles, the Doctor and Crowley, they have scenes that span all of history, and I was just wondering, what was your favourite historical era to portray yourself in and why for both characters?

David: Well, both characters got to visit Shakespeare's Globe, and both times we got to film in Shakespeare's Globe, which exists in London - for anyone who wants to know - they rebuilt the theatre that Shakespeare would have performed in with his company of players, it's been rebuilt in the banks of the Thames, close towhere it would have been, and it's been rebuilt in as much historical detail as possible. And it now runs as a theatre. It's got a full cycle of plays. You can go to London tomorrow and se a show there. And as a set to film on it's the most extraordinary thing. It's completely realised. So you stand in this kind of circular place and you look around and you're in Elizabethan England. It's fantastic. So we got to film there on Doctor Who, which was wonderful, and we got to for Good Omens as well. So both those characters were filming those scenes which were supposed to take place in that time in the most extraordinary sense, that could never be... no production would be able to make it in such extraordinary detail. That was a real treat. So that was for both of those characters that would be... for me I'd say that was the most kind of immersive experience anyway.

[im-not-occult]

Just finished Aziraphale and Crowley at The Globe 😊

[a-meh]

[puppetdaily]

Mice from The Fir Tree at The Globe, 2021

[rebelcaptain4life]

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[hikarry]

David Tennant spends half of his career at The Globe confirmed

First Good Omens, now this. Didn't he go to The Globe on Doctor Who also? Jesus, my man. Just get yourself a permanent spot in the public already

[vifetoile]

Photographs by Marc Brenner, The Globe Theatre 2024 production of Much Ado About Nothing, starring Amalia Vitale, Ekow Quartey, Lydia Fleming, and Adam Wadsworth.

[cornchrunchie]

We talk a lot about how Crowley and Aziraphale make each other smile, and how they're united through their shared excitement about the world. While this is very valid, I feel like we're forgetting about another important part of a relationship: mutual complaint.

Oh, how much I adore this brief moment between them.

Do you know how much trust it probably takes for someone like Aziraphale to openly complain about something related to his work?

First of all, he is not allowed to complain about anything in Heaven other than Hell. We see this a lot in S1 when he tries to discuss the plans of Armageddon and is repeatedly (even violently) shut down by the archangels. He is an Angel. He works for Heaven, the so-called Good Side. Everything he does, he should do with delight. Being unhappy about a task? Not wanting to do something, let alone disagree with it? It’s just not on.

Second of all, the way Aziraphale says it, he is expecting a certain reaction from Crowley, an affirming one, that is. He is saying it in a way that is asking: “Isn’t that awful?” He is not afraid to be judged, rather the opposite: He believes that Crowley will show him sympathy. And most amazingly, Crowley does.

Not only does Aziraphale trust Crowley enough to complain about something and communicate negative emotions about his work, but he also knows Crowley well enough to anticipate his understanding. He makes himself vulnerable and is rewarded with validation in return.

Even if this was already part of Crowley’s plan to speak about The Agreement, Aziraphale wouldn’t know it. And if we're honest, it doesn't really matter. He trusts Crowley because Crowley deserves his trust.

Sure, getting excited about the same things is fun. But additionally, being able to complain to somebody and knowing that they will be on your side, building a foundation of mutual trust by shared dislike?

Damn. That truly is some love right there.

[colombinna]

New trader for musicals & plays

okay so i'm brand new to this but ig we all gotta start somewhere. I have a lot of play proshots and brazilian productions though, if you're interested in those. I'm also accepting gifts to help me grow my collection!

My Encora (a few shows are missing bc i couldnt find it on their database, which is why I'm listing all my proshots in this post)

What I have for trading:

Bootlegs: Catalogued on Encora

PROSHOTS (some of the proshots are in slightly less quality than the rest):

My Fair Lady; She Loves Me Revival with Zachary Levi, Rent 2008, Jesus Christ Superstar

SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK: Much Ado About Nothing w/ Danielle Brooks

Royal Opera House: The Magic Flute, Cendrillion, La Traviatta, The Cellist, Romeo & Juliet, The Winter's Tale

NATIONAL THEATRE: Barbershop Chronicles, A Streetcar Named Desire w/ Gilian Anderson, Treasure Island, Small Island, Anthony and Cleopatra, Donmar's Warehouse Coriolanus with Tom Hiddleston, Jane Eyre, 2017's A Midsummer's Night Dream (with Gwendoline Christie and Kit Young), Romeo and Juliet 2021, Angels in America 2017

THE GLOBE: A Midsummer's Night Dream 2013, Romeo and Juliet 2009, Merry Wives of Windsor 2019, A Winter's Tale and Two Noble Kinsmen 2018, Romeo and Juliet 2019

BRASIL: Romeo & Juliet Jukebox Musical (Romeu e Julieta ao som de Marisa Monte), Little Shop of Horrors 2018, Grease

WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR:

National Theatre's Twelfth Night 2017, Cats - The Jellicle Ball PAC NYC (any cast), Royal Opera House's Acis and Galatea, Royal Opera House's Faust, The Light in the Piazza w/ Dove Cameron

[stone-cold-groove]

Globe-trotting.

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

The Globe is a Good Omens fan bc of course they are! :D ❤

[daily-lego-sets]

LEGO Ideas:

The Globe

Set: 21332

2022

Pieces: 2585

[leoreadss]

Inktober 2024 - but Good Omens themes

no.5. Binocular

Aziraphale's binoculars

[thehamletdiaries]

Dancing at The Globe

So, I have been lucky enough to see Comedy of Errors and Macbeth at the Globe recently. After Comedy of Errors, they did a dance - a jig, which would have been what happened after plays during Shakespeare's time.

After Macbeth, they did not do a dance because to a modern audience, that would have felt out of sync with the mood of the play (for obvious reasons).

But (if my understanding is correct) historically, during Shakespeare's time, the cast would have danced after tragedies, as well as comedies.

And whilst I wouldn't suggest doing that for Hamlet...something you could do would be a slow dance. You could do it with really any combination of characters, but the way I've been imagining it is with Horatio, Hamlet, Laertes, Ophelia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (good luck to any cast getting Hamlet and Laertes off staged and changed in time but these things are doable). All the dead characters would be in white, so only Horatio would wear the clothes he wore throughout the play.

Hamlet dances with Horatio, Rosencrantz with Guildenstern and Ophelia with Laertes, giving us three types of love; romantic, friendship (sorry to R&G shippers, please don't come for me, I love you all and this works equally well if you see them as romantic) and familial. About half way through the music, they move into a sort of "Elizabethan style" slow dance, moving between pairs and allowing everyone to at some point briefly dance with everyone, but everyone ends up with their original pairing at the end.

Perhaps at some point Ophelia breaks down and is just held by Laertes, perhaps at some point Rosencrantz and Guildenstern just stop dancing and stand arm in arm watching Horatio and Hamlet dance...the boys dance, foreheads pressed against each other, not wanting to let each other go to the very end...Horatio's crying, or they are both crying, and Horatio is shaking his head and holding Hamlet as if to say "please don't go".

But towards the end of the music, the five actors playing the dead characters go to the back of the stage area, leaving Horatio alone downstage. One by one, they exit through the door at the back of the stage, Hamlet being the last to go, leaving Horatio standing alone as the music fades.

This could be performed with any number of pieces of music, but when I was imagining this, these were the pieces that I listened to. With that last one, particularly, I imagined Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and Laertes and Ophelia emerging first and dancing around Horatio before Hamlet enters upstage and walks towards Horatio, pulling him into a dance.

[suzypfonne]

Aziraphale in his head: I do so enjoy a good grape....Oh dear! He's quite a different kind of snack... I'd like to pop him in my mouth as well...

at this point my brain played the soundbite of Tennant saying "oooh, saucy"