Please note that this year's walks take place on consecutive weekends. The Mysteries and Histories of Southwark Ltd. provides a unique Easter community celebration of Shakespeare's Birthday with a promenade performance of The Southwark Mysteries, from Shakespeare's Globe to Southwark Cathedral. Following in the tradition of York, Wakefield and Chester, Southwark presents a fresh cycle of Mystery Plays for the new millennium. In The Southwark Mysteries, playwright and performance poet John Constable has reinvented the human elements of these traditional biblical dramas. Christian mysticism meets local folklore when the bones of a Medieval prostitute are unearthed on the site of the old Crossbones Graveyard by excavations for the new Jubilee Line.
Numbers are strictly limited.
The company will include performers drawn from the local community. July Grupo Galpao's bittersweet interpretation of Shakespeare's timeless tragedy combines circus tricks and Commedia dell'Arte to tell its tale of passion and violence. Using masks, mime and music, the star-crossed lovers and their warring families come to the Globe straight from the colourful world of Brazilian street theatre. Their story unfolds in the company of stilt walkers, jugglers and puppeteers. Steeped in the popular culture of the mining state of Minas Gerais, north-west of Rio de Janeiro, Grupo Galpao have been entertaining national and international audiences since 1982.