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London, Globe Theatre: ‘The Play's the Thing’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2013

Extract

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Season 2012, entitled ‘The Play's The Thing’, centred on Henry V and Richard III, with new music scores by Claire van Kampen, and The Taming of the Shrew, with a new score by Richard Hammarton. In addition – and well timed in the year of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, and also the London Olympics – the Globe Theatre celebrated by sending out a worldwide invitation asking who would like to participate in their ‘Globe to Globe Festival’. As a result, 37 countries performed Shakespeare in 37 different languages here during the Season, within the architecture for which Shakespeare wrote, bringing with them a vast array of cultural diversity in music and dance dovetailed into the drama.

Type
First Performances
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013

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References

4 Daily Mail theatre review 14 June 2012.

5 See my review with photo of Simon Paisley Day as Timon in Tempo, Vol. 63, No. 247 (January 2009), 61–3Google Scholar.