Globe Theatre is a theatre located in Dunedin, New Zealand, and the amateur theatre company that runs it. The theatre was built in 1961 by Patric and Rosalie Carey as an extension of their house.

Venue: Globe Theatre
Town: Dunedin, NZ
Capacity: 72

Globe Theatre is a theatre located in Dunedin, New Zealand, and the amateur theatre company that runs it. The theatre was built in 1961 by Patric and Rosalie Carey as an extension of their house. The building to which it is attached, at 104 London Street, was designed by architect William Mason as his own house and built in 1864. Ralph Hotere designed both sets and costumes for the theatre productions. The foyer area was also used for exhibitions, notably the Waterfall paintings of Colin McCahon, paintings by Michael Smither, and pots by Barry Brickell, Len Castle, and Doreen Blumhardt. The large family house at 104 London Street was designed by architect William Mason as his own house and built in 1864. Mason built his residence at 104 London Street in 1864. When he retired to Glenorchy, he sold the house to Robert Blackadder, a Dunedin merchant, who occupied it from 1879 to 1901, and then sold it to Dunedin draper Herbert Haynes, who resided there from 1901 to 1915. From 1915 to his death in 1941, the house was owned by Alexander Beggs, son of Charles Begg, of the music and piano store. Beggs' widow Christina remarried to John McLaren in 1948, and after her death in 1956 it passed into the ownership of McLaren. Rosalie Carey (1921-2011) and Patric Carey (1920-2006) bought the house from McLaren in November 1957. The Careys came to Dunedin intending to start a theatrical company, despite being aware of Sybil Thorndyke's description of the city as "the graveyard of theatre". The Careys first staged productions in the garden and drawing-room, but began excavations to add a theatre off the former drawing room in 1961. The addition was designed by Niel Wales, who was the grandson of Nathaniel Wales, Mason's partner in Mason and Wales architects, and was originally approved by the council only as an extension to Rosalie Carey's teaching studio. According to theatre studies lecturer David Carnegie, the theatre may have been the first in New Zealand built without a prosce