Walker & Dunster's THE FRONTLINE Opens At Shakespeare's Globe 5/5

By: Apr. 03, 2009
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Shakespeare's Globe is delighted to present a revival of Ché Walker and Matthew Dunster's triumphant hit The Frontline, between 5 and 23 May 2009. Ché Walker's frank and funny play is set on a Saturday night outside a London tube station. Twenty three actors overlap in this fast-paced, exuberant tale, bringing modern London onto the Globe stage.

New for the 2009 production is an online, virtual tour of The Frontline at www.thefrontlineonline.co.uk and the ability to book tickets via text-message service. There will also be an after-party event on Friday and Saturday nights during the run, where the excitement from The Frontline continues in the Swan at the Globe Bar, with live entertainment and a late license.

The partnership between Matthew Dunster and Ché Walker was a particular success, and both have gone on to attract substantial projects this year. Matthew Dunster returns to the Globe after his hit production of Macbeth at the Royal Exchange Manchester and will direct the Globe's first full-scale production of Troilus and Cressida in July. He will direct the return of his play You Can See the Hills at the Young Vic in April and the new Told by an Idiot show at the Barbican in November.

Ché Walker won the George Devine Award for his play Flesh Wound at the Royal Court, which also presented Been So Long. Ché has reworked Been So Long into a new musical comedy, which premières at the Young Vic in June 2009. His plays have also been produced at The National Theatre, Paines Plough and internationally, and he has directed at Soho Theatre, the NT, Royal Court and Tricycle.

New cast members for the 2009 production include Jonathan Kerrigan as Kurt. Jonathan is best known for his television roles as DC Rob Walker in ITV's Heartbeat and Sam, a favourite series regular in BBC's Casualty.

The world première of The Frontline in 2008 signified the first new play at the Globe to be set in contemporary surroundings and proved to be a big hit, bringing a fresh energy and new audience to the theatre.

The Globe's Young Hearts theatre season includes Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, As You Like It, Troilus and Cressida and Love's Labour's Lost. The Globe will also present two other new plays: Helen by Euripides in a new version by Frank McGuinness and A New World: A Life of Thomas Paine by Trevor Griffiths. In addition to its main stage programme the Globe will present two nationAl Small-scale tours of The Comedy of Errors and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Website www.thefrontlineonline.co.uk
In person Mon-Fri 10am-6pm (8pm on performance days)
Sundays 10am-5pm (7pm on performances days)

On-line www.shakespeares-globe.org
Tickets £5.00 - £33.00

Education Events:
Talking Theatre (post matinee) - Saturday 16 and 23 May



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