Globe to Globe Festival

The Globe to Globe Festival ran at Shakespeare's Globe from 23 April to 9 June 2012 as part of the World Shakespeare Festival, ^[1] itself part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad. The festival's director was Tom Bird. ^[2]

The Globe to Globe Festival hosted 37 productions of Shakespeare's plays in 37 different languages over a six-week period. The festival was primarily intended to be an experiment with foreign language Shakespeare in the languages of London, however, it also aimed to discover how important Shakespeare is to the rest of the world. The Festival was recorded through blog responses on the Theatre's own website ^[3] and on the Year of Shakespeare blog. ^[4]

More than 100,000 people attended the performances, 80% of whom had not previously been to the Globe. ^[5]

Performances

Play	Language(s)	Company
Taming of the Shrew	Urdu	Theatre Walley, Pakistan
Venus and Adonis	Zulu, Xhosa, Sesotho, Setswana, Afrikaans, English	Isango Ensemble
Troilus & Cressida	Māori	Ngākau Toa
Measure for Measure	Russian	Vakhtangov Theatre
The Merry Wives of Windsor	Swahili	Bitter Pill
Pericles	Greek	National Theatre of Greece
Twelfth Night	Hindi	Company Theatre
Richard III	Mandarin	National Theatre Company of China
A Midsummer Night's Dream	Korean	Yohangza Theatre Company
Julius Caesar	Italian	369gradi artistic director Valeria Orani
Cymbeline	Juba Arabic	The South Sudan Theatre Company
Titus Andronicus	Cantonese	Tang Shu-Wing Theatre Studio
Richard II	Arabic	Ashtar Theatre
Othello	English Hip Hop	Q Brothers / Chicago Shakespeare Theatre / Richard Jordan Productions
The Tempest	Bangla	Dhaka Theatre
Macbeth	Polish	Teatr im. Kochanowskiego
The Two Gentlemen of Verona	Shona	Two Gents Productions
Henry VI: Part I	Serbian	National Theatre in Belgrade
Henry VI: Part II	Albanian	National Theatre of Albania
Henry VI: Part III	Macedonian	National Theatre of Bitola
Henry IV: Part 1	Mexican Spanish	National Theatre Company of Mexico
Henry IV: Part 2	Argentine Spanish	Elkafka Espacio Teatral
King John	Armenian	Gabriel Sundukyan National Academic Theatre
King Lear	Belarusian	Belarus Free Theatre
As You Like It	Georgian	Marjanishvili Theatre
Romeo & Juliet	Brazilian Portuguese	Grupo Galpão
Coriolanus	Japanese	Chiten
Love's Labour's Lost	British Sign Language	Deafinitely Theatre
All's Well that Ends Well	Gujarati	Arpana
The Winter's Tale	Yoruba	Renegade Theatre
The Taming of the Shrew	Urdu	Theatre Wallay
Antony and Cleopatra	Turkish	Oyun Atölyesi
The Merchant of Venice	Hebrew	Habima National Theatre
Henry VIII	Castilian Spanish	Rakatá
The Comedy of Errors	Dari Persian	Roy-e-Sabs
Timon of Athens	German	Bremer Shakespeare Company
Much Ado About Nothing	French	Compagnie Hypermobile
Hamlet	Lithuanian	Meno Fortas
Henry V	English	Shakespeare's Globe

References

1. www.rsc.org.uk, Royal Shakespeare Company. "World Shakespeare Festival". Archived from the original on 23 June 2012. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
2. "Coriolanus: A Talk by Globe to Globe Festival Director Tom Bird".
3. "Globe to Globe response". Archived from the original on 2012-09-27. Retrieved 2012-07-26.
4. "Year of Shakespeare - A project documenting the World Shakespeare Festival, the greatest celebration of Shakespeare the world has ever seen" . Retrieved 23 February 2017.
5. Lost in translation: The Globe's Shakespeare season offers a surprising insight into different cultures, Independent

External links

• Globe to Globe website
• Recordings of 32 of the Globe To Globe performances, on The Space. Archived 16 October 2012.
• World Shakespeare festival: around the Globe in 37 plays, Guardian.
• Globe to Globe Festival: Shakespeare in 37 languages, Telegraph.