Dominic Dromgoole on the new season at Shakespeare’s Globe

8th February 2008

 

SHAKESPEARE: DOMINIC DROMGOOLE

The artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe tells Heather Neill about the 2008 season, directing King Lear and why this unique theatre space needs to stage contemporary plays as well as classics.

I wanted to celebrate what a category-smasher Shakespeare was. Every time he sat down to write a play he reinvented himself.