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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 />
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<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 />
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