Recreation of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Built with Shipping Containers
“Staying true to the design of the original Globe Theatre in London, the Container Globe – a proposal to reconstruct a version of Shakespeare’s famous Globe Theatre with shipping containers – sees repurposed containers come together in a familiar form, but in steel rather than wood,” writes Sharon Lam for ArchDaily.
The founder of the project, New Zealander Angus Vail, “hopes this change in building component will give the Container Globe both a “punk rock” element and international mobility, making it as mobile as the shipping containers that make up its structure.”
Dorita Hannah, Professor at the Institute of Design for Industry and the Environment at Massey University is one of the architects involved in the Container Globe project.
“The assembly of the Container Globe is kept logically simple,” according to the article with the bulk of the theatre “made up of the shipping containers forming the seating gallery” and cut through containers forming the backstage and balconies.
The first Container Globe is planned to be constructed in Detroit, where it would be used for performances of not just the Shakespearean persuasion, but also for live music, dance, and in winter as a sculpture garden,” writes Lam.
Vail hopes to reproduce the Globe in other places around the world after this and he “is interested in mobilizing the Globe to communities lacking in cultural infrastructure in order to increase accessibility to the arts.”
“With the air of an eccentric uncle invested deeply in a hobby, Vail’s own passion makes one want to believe in his vision, regardless of whether or not one actually does,” writes Lam.
A Kickstarter campaign will be launched in 2017 to help reach the project’s estimated cost of $6 million. So far Vail, who accredits the Sex Pistols and King Lear as equally formative influences in a TEDx Talk on the project, has funded the project himself.
Angus Vail was born in Hawke’s Bay. He studied law and commerce at Victoria University and went on to work for the BNZ in London and Sydney. He had always been passionate about punk rock and in 1988 he got his first job as band business manager. Seven years later he began working as Kiss business manager, which he still does today.
Article Source: ArchDaily, Sharon Lam, September 25, 2016
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