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Welcome to <strong>London</strong><br />

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CONTENTS<br />

Events 4<br />

Virgin Money <strong>London</strong> Marathon<br />

Adidas Supernova ST Training Shoes<br />

<strong>London</strong> Stadium Tours<br />

Music 10<br />

Idina Menzel at the Royal Albert Hall<br />

Violetta’s Last Tango<br />

Exhibitions 14<br />

Wembley Stadium Tours<br />

Postal Museum and Mail Rail Opens<br />

Theatre 20<br />

42nd Street<br />

Chris de Burgh ‘A Better World’<br />

Proprietor Julie Jones<br />

Publishing Consultant Terry Mansfield CBE<br />

Associate Publisher Beth Jones<br />

Editorial Clive Hirschhorn Sue Webster<br />

© <strong>This</strong> is <strong>London</strong> Magazine Limited<br />

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omissions, however these may be caused.<br />

<strong>This</strong> year marks the 50th anniversary of<br />

the Summer of Love in 1967. The era of<br />

Sergeant Pepper may seem a far cry from<br />

the work of Shakespeare. Yet both found<br />

inspiration and creativity in this most<br />

seductive of topics.<br />

Has anyone in modern times gazed more<br />

fearlessly at, or better understood, the<br />

condition of love than Shakespeare? He<br />

gave voice to desire, grief, parenthood,<br />

betrayal, loneliness and lifelong<br />

partnership. From ancient grudge in the timeless Romeo and Juliet which<br />

opens our season, the bittersweet hilarity of Twelfth Night, the madcap,<br />

antagonistic romance of Much Ado About Nothing to the tempestuous familial<br />

love of King Lear this season has a show for every mood and experience...<br />

and with our Yard tickets still just £5 for every pocket too!<br />

It is also 20 years since the Globe opened its doors to the public for the first<br />

time. You can discover more about this remarkable project in our Exhibition<br />

and take a guided tour of the Globe Theatre itself every day throughout the<br />

summer. You can immerse yourself further in the world of Shakespeare and<br />

his contemporaries in our Around Play season of talks, staged readings and<br />

workshops, whilst younger audiences and their families can get to know<br />

Shakespeare's stories at our Telling Tales family festival in July.<br />

There is nowhere better to meet Shakespeare than on Bankside, where his<br />

plays burst to life, in the glorious Globe.<br />

Neil Constable<br />

Chief Executive, Shakespeare’s Globe<br />

VISITOR INFORMATION<br />

Emergencies 999 Police Ambulance Fire<br />

24 Hour Casualty 020 8746 8000<br />

Dentistry 0808 155 3256<br />

Victim Support 0845 30 30 900<br />

free and confidential service<br />

Visit <strong>London</strong> 020 7234 5833<br />

Heathrow Airport 0844 335 1801<br />

Gatwick Airport 0844 892 0322<br />

Taxis 020 7272 5471<br />

Dry Cleaner 7491 3426 Florist 7831 6776<br />

Optician 7581 6336 Watches 7493 5916<br />

Weather 0870 9000100<br />

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