Globe to Globe Festival
The Globe to Globe Festival ran 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.
Performances
Play | Language | Company |
Taming of the Shrew | Urdu | ![]() |
Venus and Adonis | Zulu, Xhosa, Sesotho, Setswana, Afrikaans, English | ![]() |
Troilus & Cressida | Māori | ![]() |
Measure for Measure | Russian | ![]() |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | Swahili | ![]() |
Pericles | Greek | ![]() |
Twelfth Night | Hindi | ![]() |
Richard III | Mandarin | ![]() |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | Korean | ![]() |
Julius Caesar | Italian | ![]() |
Cymbeline | Juba Arabic | ![]() |
Titus Andronicus | Cantonese | ![]() |
Richard II | Palestinian Arabic | ![]() |
Othello | English Hip Hop | ![]() |
The Tempest | Bangla | ![]() |
Macbeth | Polish | ![]() |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | Shona | ![]() |
' | Serbian | ![]() |
' | Albanian | ![]() |
' | Macedonian | ![]() |
' | Mexican Spanish | ![]() |
Argentine Spanish | ![]() | |
King John | Armenian | ![]() |
King Lear | Belarusian | ![]() |
As You Like It | Georgian | ![]() |
Romeo & Juliet | Brazilian Portuguese | ![]() |
Coriolanus | Japanese | ![]() |
Love's Labour's Lost | British Sign Language | ![]() |
All's Well that Ends Well | Gujarati | ![]() |
The Winter's Tale | Yoruba | ![]() |
The Taming of the Shrew | Urdu | ![]() |
Antony and Cleopatra | Turkish | ![]() |
The Merchant of Venice | Hebrew | ![]() |
Henry VIII | Castilian Spanish | ![]() |
The Comedy of Errors | Dari Persian | ![]() |
Timon of Athens | German | ![]() |
Much Ado About Nothing | French | ![]() |
Hamlet | Lithuanian | ![]() |
Henry V | English | ![]() |