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.
Who wants $1m from Shakespearean playhouse The Pop-Up Globe: liquidators first report
14 Mar, 2021 09:35 PM
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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
Thursday, 11 March 2021, 7:33 am
After
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After skipping town a decade
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Do you ever hate
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Ponder these questions at Pool (No Water)
….
One Question Theatre
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Pool (No Water) at The
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7PM and you’re invited to come and watch as four very
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Reunited at a funeral ‘The Gang’ is
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colossus whose work has been shown in galleries across the
globe. But when they all go for a late night skinny-dip in
their host’s pool, there’s an accident… an accident
After sailing through the
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Summer
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