Building Shakespeare’s Container Globe

From Radio New Zealand, 12 March 2015

After two decades of working and touring with the rockband Kiss, New Zealand expat Angus Vail is keen to take on a different sort of stage challenge.

He’s on a mission to build Shakespeare’s Globe theatre out of shipping containers – and, in doing so, recreate the original rowdy beer-swilling theatre experience instead of the more high-brow elite affair that is more associated with the bard these days.

Mr Vail has lived in New York for more than 20 years, but hasn’t lost his sense of New Zealand ingenuity. As well as discarded shipping containers, he plans to use scaffold and cheap building materials.

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