English File 4thE - Intermediate Plus - Video Listening - 8B The Globe Theatre — Transcript

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1. 0:01[Music]
2. 0:06hello i'm charlie welcome to
3. 0:09shakespeare's globe
4. 0:11[Music]
5. 0:19it's an incredible building
6. 0:22it's made almost entirely of wood
7. 0:24following authentic building practices
8. 0:28and it has a thatched roof
9. 0:31believe it or not this is the only
10. 0:33thatched roof that has been allowed in
11. 0:35london since the great fire of 1666.
12. 0:38[Music]
13. 0:45in fact it's almost exactly the same as
14. 0:48the original theater
15. 0:50the first globe was built by
16. 0:52shakespeare's playing company who were
17. 0:54called the lord chamberlain's men
18. 0:56in 1599
19. 0:59it looked just like this
20. 1:01but it was about 230 meters
21. 1:04that way
22. 1:06the first theater burned down during a
23. 1:08performance of shakespeare's henry viii
24. 1:10on the 29th of june 1613.
25. 1:14the company soon had the theater rebuilt
26. 1:17but sadly this second theater was
27. 1:19destroyed by the british government in
28. 1:20the 1640s because they believed theatre
29. 1:23was
30. 1:24immoral this site was almost completely
31. 1:27forgotten about for almost 300 years
32. 1:30until an american called sam wanamaker
33. 1:33tried to find it in the 1950s
34. 1:37sam wanamaker was an actor
35. 1:39he was from the united states but the
36. 1:42government banned him from working due
37. 1:43to his political views
38. 1:47he decided to move to england the home
39. 1:49of his hero william shakespeare
40. 1:52he started performing in shakespeare
41. 1:54plays all over the uk
42. 1:56especially in stratford-upon-avon
43. 1:58shakespeare's birthplace
44. 2:02eventually wannamaker followed his
45. 2:03hero's footsteps and came to london
46. 2:06he wanted to see the spot where the
47. 2:08world famous globe theater had been
48. 2:11he hoped to find a statue or a memorial
49. 2:14[Music]
50. 2:16he was shocked when all he found was a
51. 2:18dirty old plaque
52. 2:23he came up with a plan to rebuild the
53. 2:25famous globe
54. 2:28in 1970 he launched the shakespeare
55. 2:30globe trust and put his plan into action
56. 2:33but it wasn't easy
57. 2:37first of all he tried to find out the
58. 2:39size of the original theater
59. 2:44but the owners of the site refused to
60. 2:46have an archaeological survey carried
61. 2:48out
62. 2:53then he struggled to buy this riverside
63. 2:55site from the local council
64. 2:57all this time everybody was telling him
65. 2:59that a true reconstruction of the globe
66. 3:02was impossible
67. 3:05but wanamaker didn't give up
68. 3:07he managed to buy the site and with the
69. 3:10help of historical advisors and
70. 3:12extensive research he had a theater
71. 3:14built that was as close as possible to
72. 3:16shakespeare's 1599 playhouse
73. 3:22sadly wanamaker died four years before
74. 3:25shakespeare's globe opened in 1997.
75. 3:29he is remembered as the visionary who
76. 3:30recreated shakespeare's globe
77. 3:33and the theater he worked so hard to
78. 3:35rebuild
79. 3:36has been a huge success
80. 3:40[Music]
81. 3:42today it's a fantastic place to see
82. 3:45shakespeare's famous plays
83. 3:47[Music]
84. 3:51there are 857 seats in the stalls and
85. 3:54700 people can stand in the pit an area
86. 3:58with no seats which is in front of the
87. 4:00stage
88. 4:04[Music]
89. 4:08attached to the outdoor theatre is a
90. 4:11modern building
91. 4:14globe exhibition and tour is here
92. 4:17housing the largest permanent exhibition
93. 4:19on shakespeare in the world
94. 4:20[Music]
95. 4:25this explores the life of shakespeare
96. 4:28and recreates the london he lived in
97. 4:32since 2014 there has also been an indoor
98. 4:36theater on the site
99. 4:37which like the globe
100. 4:39looks and feels like a theater from
101. 4:41shakespeare's time
102. 4:43it was built using plans from the 17th
103. 4:45century
104. 4:46[Music]
105. 4:48the interior is made entirely of oak
106. 4:50wood
107. 4:52above the stage there is a musician's
108. 4:54gallery and a beautiful painted ceiling
109. 4:57[Music]
110. 4:59there are no electric lights on stage
111. 5:02all the lighting is provided by
112. 5:03candlelight
113. 5:05giving the theater an authentic
114. 5:06shakespearean atmosphere
115. 5:10and can you guess what it's called
116. 5:12it's the sam wannamaker playhouse
117. 5:15in honour of the man who made all of
118. 5:17this possible
119. 5:27you