The Globe to Globe Festival ran at
Shakespeare's Globe
Shakespeare's Globe is a reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse for which William Shakespeare wrote his plays, in the London Borough of Southwark, on the south bank of the River Thames. The original theatre was built in ...
from 23 April to 9 June 2012 as part of the World Shakespeare Festival, itself part of the
2012 Cultural Olympiad
The 2012 Cultural Olympiad was a programme of cultural events across the United Kingdom that accompanied the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics.
The Olympic Charter, the set of rules and guidelines for the organization of the Olympi ...
. 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
References
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External links
Globe to Globe websiteRecordings 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''.
''Telegraph''.
Shakespeare festivals in the United Kingdom
2012 Cultural Olympiad
2012 in theatre
Theatre festivals in England