Globe to Globe Shakespeare Plays

A multi-lingual tour de force, the Globe to Globe Shakespeare plays see 37 international companies present every one of The Bard's plays in a different language over six weeks.

The play's the thing
Beginning on Shakespeare's birthday and continuing for six weeks, the Globe to Globe Shakespeare plays celebrate both the cultural diversity of London and Shakespeare's worldwide appeal. During the six week event, each one of Shakespeare's 37 plays will be performed in a different language.

Languages from around the world
Whether you want to see A Midsummer Night's Dream performed in Korean, Richard III in Mandarin, Julius Caesar in Italian or Macbeth in Polish, the Globe to Globe Shakespeare plays give you the chance to approach The Bard from a new direction and see some of the most acclaimed Shakespearean companies from around the world. Highlights of the festival include a hip hop reinterpretation of Othello from the Chicago based Q Brothers, as well as Deafinitely Theatre's British Sign Language rendition of Love's Labour's Lost.

Programme of events
See below for more information on the programme of events at Shakespeare's Globe:

Venus and Adonis
21st April - 22nd April
Isango Ensemble - IsiZulu, IsiXhosa, SeSotho, Setswana, Afrikaans and South African English

Troilus and Cressida
23rd April - 24th April
Ngakau Toa - Maori

Measure for Measure
24th April - 25th April
Vakhtangov Theatre - Russian

The Merry Wives of Windsor
25th April - 26th April
Bitter Pill - Swahili

Pericles
26th April - 27th April
National Theatre of Greece - Greek

Twelfth Night
27th April - 28th April
Company Theatre - Hindi

Richard III
28th April - 29th April
National Theatre of China - Mandarin

A Midsummer Night's Dream
30th April - 1st May
Yohangza Theatre Company - Korean

Julius Caesar
1st May - 2nd May
I Termini Company/Lungta Production - Italian

Cymbeline
2nd May - 3rd May
The South Sudan Theatre Company - Juba Arabic

Titus Andronicus
3rd May - 4th May
Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio - Cantonese

Richard II
4th May - 5th May
Ashtar Theatre - Palestinean Arabic

Othello
5th May - 6th May
Q Brothers, Chicago Shakespeare Theater and Richard Jordan Productions - hip hop

The Tempest
7th May - 8th May
Dhaka Theatre - Bangla

Macbeth
8th May - 10th May
Teatr im. Kochanowskiego - Polish

The Two Gentlement of Verona
9th May - 10th May
Two Gents Productions - Shona

Henry VI: A New Balkan Trilogy
11th May - 13th May
National Theatre (Belgrade), National Theatre of Albania, National Theatre of Bitola - Serbian, Albanian and Macedonian

Henry IV: Part 1
14th May - 15th May
Compania Nacional de Teatro - Mexican Spanish

Henry IV: Part 2
15th May - 16th May
Elkafka Espacio Teatral - Argentine Spanish

King John
16th May - 17th May
Gabriel Sundukyan National Academic Theatre - Armenian

King Lear
17th May - 18th May
Belarus Free Theatre - Belarusian

As You Like It
18th May - 19th May
Marjanishvili Theatre - Georgian

Romeo and Juliet
19th May - 20th May
Grupo Galpao - Brazilian Portuguese

Coriolanus
21st May - 22nd May
Chiten - Japanese

Love's Labour's Lost
22nd May - 23rd May
Deafinitely Theatre - British Sign Language

All's Well That Ends Well
23rd May - 24th May
Arpana - Gujarati

The Winter's Tale
24th May - 25th May
Renegade Theatre - Yoruba

The Taming of the Shrew
25th May - 26th May
Theatre Wallay - Urdu

Anthony and Cleopatra
26th May - 27th May
Oyun Atolyesi - Turkish

The Merchant of Venice
28th May - 29th May
Habima National Theatre - Hebrew

Henry VIII
29th May - 30th May
Rakata - Castilian Spanish

The Comedy of Errors
30th May - 31st May
Roy-e-Sabs - Dari Persian

Timon of Athens
31st May - 1st June
Bremer Shakespeare Company - German

Much Ado About Nothing
1st June - 2nd June
Compagnie Hypermobile - French

Hamlet
2nd June - 3rd June
Meno Fortas - Lithuanian

Henry V
8th June - 9th June
Shakespeare's Globe - English

London 2012
Part of the World Shakespeare Festival, the Globe to Globe Shakespeare plays celebrate the London 2012 Festival in the run up to the highly anticipated London 2012 Olympic Games. For more information on other events taking place as part of the two festivals, click on the links below.

World Shakespeare Festival London

London 2012 Festival

The Globe to Globe Shakespeare plays start on Monday 23rd April 2012 and continue for six weeks. Tickets go on sale in October 2011; for more information and to buy tickets, call 020 7401 9919.

Cultural Olympiad London Festival

Shakespeare Exhibition at British Museum

Queens Jubilee London

Einstein on the Beach at Barbican

Cate Blanchett at Barbican

Sundance London

Olympic Outdoor Screenings

Olympic Festival at Hyde Park

Olympic Festival at Victoria Park

Olympic Festival at Potters Fields

Exhibition Road Festival

Hackney Weekend 2012

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