Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes of Contributors
- Introduction
- Shakespeare, Africa & the Globe Olympiad
- The Two Geltlemen of Zimbabwe & their Diaspora Audience at Shakespeare's Globe
- Shakespeare's African Nostos Township nostalgia & South African performance at sea
- Ìtàn Ògìnìntìn, The Winter's Tale Shakespeare meets Yoruba gods
- Performing the Nation at the London Globe – Notes on a South Sudanese Cymbeline ‘We will be like other people in other places’
- African Shakespeares – a Discussion
- ‘Sa bezsominn Shakespeare la’ – The Brave New World of Dev Virahsawmy
- Crioulo Shakespeareano & the Creolising of King Lear
- Playscript
- Book Reviews
Shakespeare, Africa & the Globe Olympiad
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes of Contributors
- Introduction
- Shakespeare, Africa & the Globe Olympiad
- The Two Geltlemen of Zimbabwe & their Diaspora Audience at Shakespeare's Globe
- Shakespeare's African Nostos Township nostalgia & South African performance at sea
- Ìtàn Ògìnìntìn, The Winter's Tale Shakespeare meets Yoruba gods
- Performing the Nation at the London Globe – Notes on a South Sudanese Cymbeline ‘We will be like other people in other places’
- African Shakespeares – a Discussion
- ‘Sa bezsominn Shakespeare la’ – The Brave New World of Dev Virahsawmy
- Crioulo Shakespeareano & the Creolising of King Lear
- Playscript
- Book Reviews
Summary
The May 2012 Globe to Globe festival was energetically promoted. The organisers put out an announcement in which they proclaimed:
…the wild journeys of [Shakespeare's] plays, first travelled in English, soon multiplied into many fresh journeys, in a whole host of different tongues. We are bringing together artists from all over the globe, to enjoy speaking these plays in their own language, in our Globe, within the architecture Shakespeare wrote for…
In excited tones, they continued:
Many of the world's greatest directors, over six hundred actors from all nations, and audiences from every corner of our polyglot community, will assemble to celebrate the stories, the characters and the relationships, which are etched into all of us. Shakespeare is the language which brings us together better than any other, and which reminds of our almost infinite difference, and of our strange and humbling commonality.
You could not but be infected by this enthusiasm as they concluded:
A Globe beside the Thames is where many of these plays began their extraordinary journey. Another Globe beside the Thames is delighted to be bringing these plays, dressed in the clothes of many peoples, back home. Please come and join us!
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- African Theatre 12Shakespeare in and out of Africa, pp. 1 - 12Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2013