With SHAKESPEARE: CALL AND RESPONSE, Conceived and Directed by Patricia McGregor, from OCTOBER 26 to NOVEMBER 14, 2021
Touring Free Shakespeare to Multiple Community Partner Venues
and Culminating with a Public Performance on the
Globe’s Lowell Davies Festival Theatre Stage
for Closing Night, November 14, 2021
(left, background) Jared Van Heel and Anthony Green as Antigonus in the Globe for All tour of Shakespeare’s The Winter's Tale, 2019. Photo by Rich Soublet II.
The Old Globe presents the return of the Globe for All Tour, a free Shakespeare tour that reaches locations throughout San Diego County—now in its seventh year of making theatre matter to more people! Director and creator Patricia McGregor, an Old Globe Resident Artist, returns to the Globe
with her innovative Shakespeare production of Shakespeare: Call and Response, featuring the talented Globe for All company of professional actors. The company will bring a stirring production to various economically, geographically, and culturally diverse communities throughout San Diego County, including Old Globe Community Partner venues from San Ysidro to Oceanside. The free-admission Globe for All Tour kicks off on Tuesday, October 26, with opening night on Thursday, October 28, and running for three weeks, from Tuesdays to Sundays, with a culminating closing night performance on November 14, 2021, on the Globe’s Lowell Davies Festival Theatre stage. Patricia McGregor directs GFA Tour
Rooted in the vibrant interplay between performers and audience, Shakespeare: Call and Response is an hour-long celebration of verse, music, dance, and audience participation. Built for plazas and outdoor venues, the piece features five virtuosic actors, who transform into a variety of roles based on feedback from the audience. Part “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” and part “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged),” the event is anchored by a DJ inviting the crowd in while spinning hits to get people on their feet. No two shows are the same, but all include scenes from five significant Shakespeare plays. Shakespeare: Call and Response is a dynamic dialogue between the greatest writer of all time and the dynamic citizens of America’s Finest City, leaving both transformed for the better.Community members enjoying a pre-show activity before a performance of Globe for All, 2018. Photo by Rich Soublet II.
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Arts Engagement Programs Manager Laura Zablit with audience members at the Globe for All tour of Shakespeare’s The Winter's Tale, 2019. Photo by Rich Soublet II. |
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Audience member at the Globe for All tour of Shakespeare’s The Winter's Tale, 2019. Photo by Rich Soublet II. |
Organizations interested in partnering with the Globe for All Tour and hosting a performance in the future should contact Laura Zablit, Arts Engagement Programs Manager, at lzablit@TheOldGlobe.org or (619) 231-1941 x2143.
The Tony Award–winning The Old Globe is one of the country’s leading professional not-for-profit regional theatres. Now in its 87th year, the Globe is San Diego’s flagship performing arts institution, and it serves a vibrant community with theatre as a public good. Under the leadership of Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director Barry Edelstein and the Audrey S. Geisel Managing Director Timothy J. Shields, The Old Globe produces a year-round season of 16 productions of classic, contemporary, and new works on its three Balboa Park stages, including its internationally renowned Shakespeare Festival. More than 250,000 people annually attend Globe productions and participate in the theatre’s artistic and arts engagement programs. Its nationally prominent Arts Engagement Department provides an array of participatory programs that make theatre matter to more people in neighborhoods throughout the region. Humanities programs at the Globe and around the city broaden the community’s understanding of theatre art in all its forms. The Globe also boasts a range of new play development programs with professional and community-based writers, as well as the renowned The Old Globe and University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theatre Program. Numerous world premieres—such as 2014 Tony Award winner for Best Musical A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Bright Star, The Full Monty, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!—have been developed at The Old Globe and have gone on to highly successful runs on Broadway and at regional theatres across the country.
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THE OLD GLOBE – 2021 CALENDAR
September 11 – October 17 – The Gardens of Anuncia
September 25 – 2021 Globe Gala
October 2 and 3 – AXIS: Power Ball (site-specific dance performance)
October 7 – November 7 – Shutter Sisters
October 9 – Globe Learning Virtual Workshop: Theatre Games with Neurodiverse Actors
November 2 – AXIS: Día de Muertos/Day of the Dead Celebration
November 10 – December 31 - Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
November 19 – December 26 - Ebenezer Scrooge’s BIG San Diego Christmas Show
December 11 – AXIS: Grinch Sensory-Friendly AXIS Event
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