Globe to Globe Festival

The Globe to Globe Festival ran 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.

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[2] and on the Year of Shakespeare blog.[3]

More than 100,000 people attended the performances, 80% of whom had not previously been to the Globe.[4]

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 Palestinian 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. Globe to Globe response
  3. "Year of Shakespeare - A project documenting the World Shakespeare Festival, the greatest celebration of Shakespeare the world has ever seen". Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  4. Lost in translation: The Globe's Shakespeare season offers a surprising insight into different cultures, Independent
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