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How Globe to Globe Staged the WorldWednesday, 06 June 2012
Over the past six weeks, we at the Globe have put on a festival called Globe to Globe. The concept (an idea of Dominic Dromgoole’s) was always very simple to explain: all of Shakespeare’s plays, each in a different language. But the reality of that... Read more... |
Globe to Globe: Hamlet, Shakespeare's GlobeMonday, 04 June 2012
We’re fresh out of superlatives. The Globe to Globe season has put a girdle around the earth in 37 languages, and the visiting companies have now left the building. You have to high-five the Globe’s chutzpah for mounting this wondrous contribution... Read more... |
Globe to Globe: Timon of Athens, Shakespeare's GlobeSaturday, 02 June 2012
Diamonds one day, stones the next: compulsive giver Timon’s swift descent into raving misanthropy would be better packed into a gritty pop ballad than a full-length play. Still, Shakespeare just about pulls it off: having had more of a hindering... Read more... |
Globe to Globe: The Comedy of Errors, Shakespeare’s GlobeFriday, 01 June 2012
The Comedy of Errors may not be one of Shakespeare’s most notable plays, yet this production embodied the essence of the Globe to Globe season. While the play was lent new kinds of hilarity and colour when interpreted within a different culture, I... Read more... |
Globe to Globe: Henry VIII, Shakespeare's GlobeThursday, 31 May 2012
Now here's a surprise. In English, Henry VIII gets dismissed as a Shakespearean dud (well, let's apportion the blame as well to the play's generally acknowledged co-author, John Fletcher), its karma not exactly enhanced by one's awareness that this... Read more... |
Globe to Globe: Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare's GlobeWednesday, 30 May 2012
As soon as the two leads entered you were left in no doubt that you were in the presence of stars, at least in their native Turkey: thunderous applause, cheers and whistles greeted Haluk Bilginer as Antony and Zerrin Tekindor as Cleopatra, as they... Read more... |
Globe to Globe: The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare's GlobeTuesday, 29 May 2012
There's a good deal of irony in the most controversial production of the Globe to Globe season turning out to be one of the least interesting. The Merchant of Venice was performed by Israel's Habima National Theatre, a company which has incurred the... Read more... |
Globe to Globe: The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare's GlobeMonday, 28 May 2012
The battle of the sexes took on a bright and breezy tone in Pakistan's contribution to the Globe's ongoing Bardathon, the Theatre Wallay-Kashf's rumbustious production of The Taming of the Shrew. It's been more customary of late to treat this most... Read more... |
Globe to Globe: The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare's GlobeSunday, 27 May 2012
The Winter’s Tale may not be one of the best loved of Shakespeare’s plays – not quite a comedy, not quite a full-blown drama – but the Globe was packed on the hottest night of the year for this vibrant Yoruba version direct from Lagos. South-East... Read more... |
Globe to Globe: All's Well That Ends Well, Shakespeare's GlobeFriday, 25 May 2012
It's both easy and fashionable to render ironic, or scoff at, the title of All's Well That Ends Well. This is the Shakespeare "comedy" in which the rabidly obsessed Helena finally ensnares her none-too-doting Bertram in a putative happy ending that... Read more... |
Globe to Globe: Coriolanus, Shakespeare's GlobeThursday, 24 May 2012
Had one listened to the Chiten company from Kyoto performing Coriolanus with one’s eyes closed, it would have seemed as if the stage were teeming with performers. And without understanding a word of Japanese, a theatregoer could respond to... Read more... |
Globe to Globe: Love's Labour's Lost, Shakespeare's GlobeWednesday, 23 May 2012
"37 Plays. 37 Languages." This is the tagline for the Globe Theatre's Globe to Globe season, hosting theatre companies from every corner of the world. The season may be international in outlook, yet the language used to perform this version of Love'... Read more... |
