‘In 1987 the impresario Reinhard Schiele was developing the idea of building a mobile stage for his touring theatre company “ Schloßtheater Overhagen“ and was inspired in this by Shakespeare’s Globe. It was not his aim to build an accurate copy of the London Globe, which had been under construction in London since 1987. His idea was rather to design a touring stage such as Shakespeare’s company might have built in our times. His first plan was that of a twelve-sided structure, made, like the original, of wood, able to be erected and dismantled relatively quickly on a marketplace or fairground. Fire regulations soon put an end to this plan and so the present, much more complicated and much heavier steel and wood structure was developed.’

Read more at the German Shakespeare festival website.

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