Kumiko Ueda, Japanese theatre director (ex-Takarazuka) reflects on the relationship between the audience and the performance in this fascinating blog post.

She was directing Hamlet at the time and so she also looks at what we know about Shakespeare’s audiences - the people who saw the plays at the Globe Theatre in the late 16th/early 17th century.

And she points to how fragmented and segmented audiences have become and the difficulties that creates.

The post is in Japanese but if you use Chrome’s translate option, you get a very readable English version (something that doesn’t always happen with machine translations from Japanese).

https://note.com/kumiko_ueda/n/n3c9e34e8b30b

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Calling all #climate conscious #playwrights!

The Climate Playwriting Prize 2026 | Discover | Shakespeare's Globe

We believe that playwrights have a vital role to play in the conversation around the climate. Theatre is a space for animating audiences, forming communities, and experimenting with form; a space for processing the past, articulating the present, and imagining the future. Beyond the West End, regional and touring theatre is playing a vital role in engaging audiences.

This moment is marked by rising temperatures, escalating impacts of change on communities and ecosystems, but also by the unprecedented call to arms to storytellers at COP30 in 2025. The need for new stories that help audiences grapple with the realities and possibilities of this crisis has never been clearer. 

In order to surface the breadth and diversity of new stories about this planetary moment, the Climate Playwriting Prize is an open invitation to playwrights to respond creatively to this subject matter. We are partnering with organisations all around the country to deliver workshops to writers, unlocking how they might want to tell their climate story.

#Playwright #playwrighting #playwriting #climatestorytelling #climatestories #climateaction #shakespearesglobe #GlobeTheatre

https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/jobs-and-opportunities/climate-playwriting-prize-2026/

"In my heart of hearts: Music in #Shakespeare's Plays" songs, ballads and instrumental pieces by Thomas #Morley, William #Byrd, Anthony #Holborne, John #Playford and others
Hannah Morrison soprano
Marnix de Cat countertenor
Hathor Consort / Romina Lischka

https://laboiteamusique.eu/product/in-my-heart-of-hearts-music-in-shakespeares-plays-romina-lischka/

a wealth of sensual #Renaissance sounds from the time of #ElizabethI in pieces that could well have been performed at the #GlobeTheatre.

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https://outhere-music.com/en/albums/my-heart-hearts-music-shakespeares-plays

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Ten facts about the only building in London with a thatched roof.

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2025/08/21-august-shakespeares-globe-theatre.html?m=0

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Wonder what Shakespeare would have thought if he knew furries were being used with his work 🤣

I hope he'd approve. 🙏

EDIT: Why has this blown up? 🤣

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ADORO IL GENIO - AH NO?

NO

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