Pop-up Globe returns for Christmas

Pop-up Globe returns to Auckland for the summer. Photo / Stock

This summer heralds the return of Auckland's Pop-up Globe. Five new plays will grace its stages across the 2017-2018 season.

For the third time, some of Shakespeare's greatest plays will be recreated for Auckland's audiences at the pop-up theatre in Ellerslie.

The doors are set to open on December 7 with what promoters said was one of the "greatest stage comedies" of all time - A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Directed by Pop-up Globe artistic director and founder, Dr Miles Gregory, and featuring specialist actors from the Kings Company, 10 special evening performances will be put on in the lead-up to Christmas.

This will be followed by performances of The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, The Comedy of Errors and Julius Caesar from January 11.

Its promoters promise "better special effects, more laughter, more battles and blood".

This isn't dusty old Shakespeare. This is bawdy, hilarious, brutal and bloodsoaked.

Go to popupglobe.co.nz for more details.