Pop-Up Globe owners $720k in the red as two more businesses sink into liquidation
11 May, 2021 05:23 AM
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A new Pop-Up Globe that is under construction at the Ellerslie Race Course.
Two more companies that were part of the now-failed Shakespearean Australasian theatre business Pop-Up Globe have been put into liquidation in a $720,000 failure. Pop-Up Globe Auckland and Pop-up Globe International are now in the hands of Gareth Hoole and Clive Bish of Ecovis KGA after shareholders and directors Miles Lattimer-Gregory and Tobias Grant made that move.
The world s first full-scale temporary working replica of Shakespeare s second Globe was created from scratch here to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Bard s death.
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A new Pop-Up Globe that is under construction at the Ellerslie Race Course.
Failed Shakespearean Auckland theatre business The Pop-Up Globe owes more than $1 million to creditors whose names have now been published in the first liquidators report. The business has for about six years been erecting a full-scale temporary replica of the Shakespearean Globe Theatre and staging plays but it went under on March 3.
ANZ, Inland Revenue and scaffolding specialists Camelspace are some of the creditors listed by the liquidators.
Former Herald reporter Eleanor Barker with Lyndon Katene, centre, and stuntman Alex Holloway from The Pop-Up Globe. Photo / Jason Oxenham
The successful theatre company had no cash flow after Covid-19 hit.
Shakespearean theatre company the Pop-Up Globe owes $728,000 and was insolvent at the time it failed, the first liquidators’ report on the business says.
The liquidators hope to sell the business as a going concern and are in early discussions with a group of parties who may have an interest in taking it forward, the report said.
Company founders Dr Miles Gregory and Tobias Grant put their entities Pop-Up Globe Foundation and Pop-Up Globe Melbourne 1 into voluntary liquidation on March 3, after the homegrown theatre phenomenon became “a victim of Covid-19’s wrecking ball”.
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Two companies related to the Pop-Up Globe Theatre Company are in liquidation after Covid-19 caused a sudden halt on international touring plans. By January last year, Pop-up Globe had produced 16 professional Shakespeare productions, entertained more than 750,000 ticket holders including more than 50,000 school students, and was successfully operating international touring seasons, organisers said. Last year was expected to be the final year Pop-up Globe performed in New Zealand. Pop-up Globe announced it was planning to focus on international touring while maintaining its headquarters in Auckland. But the local season was curtailed by Covid-19 restrictions and international plans were put on hold.