Sunday, July 24, 2011

GERMAN “GLOBE THEATRE” ON E-BAY

 

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Inside The Globe in “Anonymous”

The head of a Shakespeare troupe in Berlin said Thursday he has been forced to auction off on eBay a life-sized replica of the famed Globe Theatre used in a film by Hollywood director Roland Emmerich.

Emmerich had given the theatre-in-the-round to Christian Leonard, the artistic chief of Shakespeare Company Berlin, as a gift after more than 30 of his actors appeared in a film for the director, "Anonymous".

The production about Shakespeare by the German-born Emmerich ("Independence Day") and starring Vanessa Redgrave and Rhys Ifans required a Globe Theatre set, which was built at a cost of around 500,000 euros ($716,000).

But a dejected Leonard told AFP that he had been unable to agree with city authorities on a site to transplant the three-storey venue, a remarkable copy of the arena where Shakespeare staged his plays some 400 years ago.

This left him unable to find a sponsor to cover his costs.

"I fell in love with the theatre and if you're passionately in love, you don't let the object of your desire go," the 49-year-old said.

"I want to see plays put on in this theatre, not have it land in the trash."

The set, which seats 700 people, is still at the 99-year-old Babelsberg Studios outside Berlin, where Fritz Lang made the classic "Metropolis".

But spokesman Eike Wolf said it needed to be dismantled and removed by July 30 to make room for a major production.

The new picture, "Cloud Atlas" starring Tom Hanks, starts filming in September in Babelsberg. Its producers call it the most expensive German film of all time.

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