Surprises: Pop-up Performances

A secret pop-up event taking place over the period of late August and beginning of September all over London, as part of the festival atmosphere. In this case actors will be "flash-mobbing" one to one or with the public in surprise locations and times and then mingle back into the crowd once it is over.

As stated on the 'Mayor of London Presents' website:

Get ready to be Shakespeared. Characters from some of the Bard’s most loved works will soon be appearing in a crowd near you. Performing brief, one-to-one or flashmob moments, Puck, Hamlet and others will be surprising passers by as they emerge from the crowd, perform and disappear the way they came.

Created by award-winning actor Mark Rylance and directed by Jonathan Moore, the cast will be played by 50 actors aged 17 to 70, who have been chosen by Shakespeare's Globe, including deaf and disabled artists.

The exact times and locations of the performances will be kept secret until the day they happen.

I may not be able to catch these performances as I am in France for pretty much the whole duration of this event! Which is really annoying because I may have been able to try and talk to these actors, see how they translated Shakespeare, whether they modernised him, how they interacted with the public, and most importantly, the choice of their LOCATIONS.

See the web page HERE, and HERE