The Shakespeare Globe Centre Australia has launched its 1998 program. As in previous years, there will be the Shakespeare Globe Centre Youth Festival running in schools throughout the country. Last year's Australian Young Shakespearean Artist of the Year was Tom Murphy from Queanbeyan, who is currently exploring overseas and will take up his award visiting the London Globe Theatre in June.
The Teacher of the Year award will be offered again this year: a chance to "celebrate, study and share the first-hand Shakespearean experience" at the London Globe. Teachers need to present a detailed proposal for the professional development they would like to undertake.
This year the prize for the young Shakespearean Artist of the Year will include a full scholarship for four weeks at the London Globe in the northern summer along with the winners from USA, Japan, Canada, Denmark, New Zealand and Germany.
These "Globe Apprentices" will be immersed into the life of the Globe Theatre; will benefit from master classes with professional actors and directors and join in regular movement and vocal work with the Globe company. They will observe rehearsals and technical sessions, and will attend productions.
The apprentices will also train as an Apprentice Company and present sonnets, monologues and scenes in the Globe Theatre on Sunday afternoons. In this intensive four weeks apprentices will help in the production office, box office, wardrobe and front of house, as well as going to classes on the historical, social, cultural and political contexts of the playhouse and the plays.
The Australian Shakespeare Globe Centre is based at Sydney University. Enquiries should be directed to Diana Denley or Hugh O'Keefe by phone 02 9351 5231 or fax 02 9351 5230.
© Frank McKone, Canberra
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