The Globe to Globe Festival ran at Shakespeare's Globe from 23 April to 9 June 2012 as part of the World Shakespeare Festival, 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 and on the Year of Shakespeare blog.
More than 100,000 people attended the performances, 80% of whom had not previously been to the Globe.Lost in translation: The Globe's Shakespeare season offers a surprising insight into different cultures, Independent
Performances
Play Language(s) CompanyTaming of the ShrewUrduTheatre 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
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.