SHAKESPEARE
Events
FOUND IN TRANSLATION Spring 2012
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Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome... This spring Globe Education will be charting the Shakespearean Diaspora through our intercultural season Shakespeare Found in Translation.
What is common about the peoples of the world is a common culture... The genius of great literary figures (among which Shakespeare must stand very high, if not pre-eminent) consists in their ability to express the human condition in a form recognisable to all people.
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Sam Wanamaker (interview with Professor Graham Holderness, 1986)
We will be celebrating the richness of artistic expression and global dramatic connections that have been fused together through the works of William Shakespeare, mapping the journey of Shakespeare in translation. The art of translating Shakespeare will be explored in our series of Shakespeare Found in Translation Lectures. These lectures will examine the process of translating the language of Shakespeare into the cultural context of another country and language. To kick start this lecture series we are delighted to welcome Niels Brunse (acclaimed translator of Shakespeare) to Shakespeare’s Globe to set the tone and agenda for this series of lectures that will run alongside our Globe to Globe international festival.
During the Easter holidays we will be welcoming families into the Globe to experience The Dream Space, embracing the global traditions of immersive storytelling and puppetry inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The dream theme will continue with our flagship annual programme Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank, inviting London school students to experience a live performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the Globe Theatre. We have lots more exciting events too, so take your time to journey through the pages of this brochure and for further detail on the season visit our website www.shakespearesglobe.com/events.
For our Sam Wanamaker Fellowship Lecture this season, Globe Education is proud to honour Professor Ton Hoenselaars as our 2012 Sam Wanamaker fellow. Ton’s lecture will be entitled “Shakespeare and the Cultures of Translation”.
So come on a voyage of discovery with us to uncover the familiar and unfamiliar, as we acknowledge our global playwright, discover the multi tongued Shakespeare and welcome the global community to our Globe Theatre by the banks of the river Thames.
It is the East is our trilogy of Saturday sessions, practically exploring Shakespeare in the context of the dramatic landscape of an Eastern part of the world. The trilogy will culminate in a colourful celebration of intercultural music, dance and artistic expression.
This same river that has brought the cultural richness, diversity and treasures of the world to these shores; developing London into our world city.
The international theme will continue in our Read Not Dead season, discovering the Spanish Golden Age and looking at contemporaries of Shakespeare writing
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plays with intercultural threads. This begins with the 1635 Spanish golden age play La Vida Es Sueño (Life is a Dream) by Pedro Calderón de la Barca in association with the Spanish Institute.
As Shakespeare acknowledged himself “all the world’s a stage”.
Jamie Arden, Head of Operations and Events, Globe Education
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SHAKESPEARE
FOUND IN
The Shakespeare Found in Translation lecture series will examine the work of translators and intercultural practitioners tackling the Shakespearian cannon and follow their process to translate the language of Shakespeare into different tongues.
SHAKESPEARE FOUND IN TRANSLATION WITH NIELS BRUNSE Wednesday 18th April 2012 Niels Brunse is a Danish author and translator. He has translated over 200 works, mainly from English, German and Russian, including classics by William Shakespeare, Thomas Mann and Anton Chekhov. He is himself the author of poetry, two collections of short stories, three novels and three published plays. Time
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mandarin Sunday 29th April Exploring the translation of Shakespeare into Mandarin, set within the context of staging Richard III in Mandarin by the National Theatre of China as part of the Globe to Globe festival. This lecture will commence at 17.00
Arabic Saturday 5th May
the languages of the Balkans Saturday 12th May Exploring the translation of Shakespeare into Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian and Albanian set within the context of staging Henry VI A New Balkan Trilogy as part of the Globe to Globe festival.
Exploring the translation of Shakespeare into Arabic, set within the context of staging Richard II in Arabic by Ashtar Theatre of Ramallah as part of the Globe to Globe festival.
This event is supported by Laza Kostic Fund.
polish
Monday 14th May
Wednesday 9th May Exploring the translation of Shakespeare into Polish, set within the context of staging Macbeth in Polish by Teatr Im. Kochanowskiego as part of the Globe to Globe festival.
mexican spanish Exploring the translation of Shakespeare into Mexican Spanish, set within the context of staging Henry IV: Part 1 in Mexican Spanish by Compañia Nacional de Teatro as part of the Globe to Globe festival. This event is supported by the Spanish Cultural Institute (Instituto Cervantes, London).
british sign language Wednesday 23rd May Exploring the translation of Shakespeare into British Sign Language, set within the context of staging Love’s Labour’s Lost in British Sign Language by Deafinitely Theatre as part of the Globe to Globe festival.
yoruba FRIDAY 25TH MAY Exploring the translation of Shakespeare into Yoruba, set within the context of staging The Winter’s Tale in Yoruba by Renegade Theatre as part of the Globe to Globe festival.
hebrew Tuesday 29th May Exploring the translation of Shakespeare into Hebrew, set within the context of staging The Merchant of Venice in Hebrew by Habima National Theatre as part of the Globe to Globe festival.
LECTURES
Nancy W. Knowles Lecture Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe
Tickets £12 (£10 FoSG/concs/students) Including a glass of wine/juice
Time
18.00 (with the exception of Shakespeare Found in Mandarin)
Venue
Nancy W. Knowles Lecture Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe
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SAM WANAMAKER FELLOWSHIP LECTURE
2012 SAM WANAMAKER FELLOW TON HOENSELAARS Ton Hoenselaars is Professor of Early Modern English Literature and Culture at the English Department of Utrecht University. He is the founding Chairman of the Shakespeare Society of the Low Countries (SGNV) and President of the European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA). His books include Shakespeare’s History Plays (CUP) and Shakespeare and the Language of Translation (Arden).
SHAKESPEARE AND THE CULTURES OF TRANSLATION Tuesday 20th March Ton Hoenselaars explores the connections between translation in the early modern theatre and our own 21st century practice. The comparison between these two periods reveals a number of new challenges but it also suggests certain responsibilities for today’s players and audiences worldwide. Ton will reflect on the effects of staging Shakespeare’s plays both in Britain and around the globe and how these early modern plays seek to interact and engage with diverse audiences across the language divide. Time
19.00
Venue Photo: Paul van der Lugt
Nancy W Knowles Lecture Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe
Tickets £12 (£10 FoSG/concs/students) Including a glass of wine/juice
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Sam Wanamaker, an American actor, director and producer, was the founder of the project to build Shakespeare’s Globe. Sam died in 1993 after 23 years of tireless campaigning, advancing research into the appearance of the original Globe and planning its reconstruction.
A Read Not Dead “performances with scripts” of rarely performed plays written between 1567 and 1642. Globe Education launched their Read Not Dead programme in 1995; it aims to breathe life into the plays written by Shakespeare’s contemporaries, a period of time that would have been considered a “Golden Age” of theatre even without the works of William Shakespeare. This season Read Not Dead will be staging plays from the Spanish Golden Age and plays written by Shakespeare’s contemporaries with intercultural themes.
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La Vida Es SueÑo
THE SPANISH TRAGEDY
Sunday 5th February
Sunday 25th March
(Life is a Dream)
by Thomas Kyd (1597)
by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1635) La Vida Es Sueño is a Spanish language play by the great Spanish dramatist Pedro Calderón de la Barca. This Spanish Golden Age play was first published in 1635 as a philosophical allegory regarding the human situation and the mystery of life. The central argument of the play explores the conflict between free will and fate. The play remains one of Calderón’s bestknown and most studied works.
BONDUCA
Our Read Not Dead season concludes with The Spanish Tragedy, Thomas Kyd’s highly popular and influential play. In its time The Spanish Tragedy established a new genre in Early Modern drama, the “revenge play” or “revenge tragedy”. The premise of the play, containing several gruesome and violent murders, includes a character as a personification of Revenge. This seminal work by Kyd has been often referred to and parodied in works by other Elizabethan playwrights, including William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Christopher Marlowe.
RARELY PLAYED SEMINARS Engaging seminars that introduce and explore the context of the Read Not Dead performances. Time
12.00 – 14.00
Venue
Globe Education reception desk at Shakespeare’s Globe
Tickets £13 (£10 FoSG/concs/students) includes ticket to the Read Not Dead performance
Sunday 11th March by John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont (1613) Bonduca is Fletcher (and possibly Beaumont’s) Jacobean tragicomedy acted by the King’s Men c. 1613, and published in 1647 in the Beaumont and Fletcher folio. The play is a dramatisation of the story of Boudica, the British Celtic queen who led a revolt against the Romans in 60-61AD. This play has often been referred to as an “historical romance”, rather than a history play in the same vain as the history plays of Shakespeare.
All read not dead Plays Time
15.00
Venue
Nancy W Knowles Lecture Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe
Tickets £8 (£6 FoSG/concs/students) With thanks to the Instituto Cervantes, Londres (Spanish Cultural Institute) for their support.
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SESSIONS
IT IS THE EAST SATURDAY SESSIONS
exploring the Middle East with Shakespeare
exploring Eastern Asia with Shakespeare
Saturday 11th February
Saturday 17th March
This Saturday session looks at how Shakespeare has been dispersed into the fabric of dramaturgy, storytelling and creative expression in Arabic, appropriating Shakespeare’s plays into the cultural diversity of the Middle East.
This Saturday session journeys to East Asia to see how Shakespeare has been appropriated in eastern Asian dramatic form; within Japanese Noh, Balinese Shadow Puppetry, through to Beijing opera and Chinese dramatic interpretations.
This event is in association with Khayaal Theatre Company and the Muslim Writers Awards.
It is the East is Globe Education’s trilogy of practical sessions and debates shining a light on the Shakespearean Diaspora and Intercultural Shakespeare in performance that has placed Shakespeare firmly as THE global playwright. It is the East Saturday sessions will invite you to explore how geographical areas have weaved Shakespeare within their theatrical landscapes, traditions and translations. These Saturday sessions involve a lively mix of practical workshops with specialist practitioners as well as platform discussions and debates led by leading scholars and directors.
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exploring Eastern Europe with Shakespeare Saturday 25th February This Saturday session discusses how Shakespeare has influenced dramatic theory in Eastern Europe with particular focus on Shakespeare in relationship to the great eastern European dramatic theorists Stanislavski, Grotowski and Brecht.
This event is in association with Yellow Earth Theatre and Professor Dennis Kennedy.
IT IS THE EAST SESSIONS Cultural celebration of the music and dance traditions of the it is the east series Saturday 17th March It is the East culminates in a celebration of music, dance and art from the areas explored through the It is the East series. Join us for a musical evening of cultural rhythms created through melody and percussion. This event is in association with Yellow Earth Theatre and the School of African and Oriental Studies.
All sESSIONS Time
10.00 – 18.00
Time
Venue
Sackler Studios, Shakespeare’s Globe
Venue
Tickets £35 (£25 FoSG/concs/students)
Tickets £15 (£12 FoSG/concs/students)
19.00
UnderGlobe, Shakespeare’s Globe
This event is in association with the Moscow Arts Theatre and Dr. Boika Sokolova.
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INTERCULTURAL SHAKESPEARE SYMPOSIUM Friday 18th May and Saturday 19th May Building on the It is the East trilogy of debates and workshops, Globe Education will continue our intercultural Shakespeare theme by hosting a two-day symposium on intercultural Shakespearean performance. This symposium will engage the theatrical community in an interdisciplinary discussion about the contemporary performance of Shakespeare in translation, as well as adaptation and appropriations of Shakespearean narratives and texts.
As part of this symposium Globe Education are running a seminar on ‘Transnational’ performance in the early modern period. This seminar will give us the opportunity to think how, historically, international theatre traditions, performers and texts may have made their way to England and the cultural exchanges that these produced during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. The Intercultural symposium will include an optional visit to the Globe to Globe international festival to see a production. Time
Friday 16.00 – 19.00 (evening reception to follow) Saturday 10.00 – 18.00 (optional visit to Globe to Globe)
Venue
Nancy W. Knowles Lecture Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe
Tickets £50 (£30 FoSG/concs/students) Tickets include an evening reception on Friday evening including a glass of wine/juice
Photo: The Kyogen of Errors, 2001 Photographer: John Tramper SPRING 2012 | 13
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april Events
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A CONCERT FOR WINTER
Thu 19
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
SAM WANAMAKER FESTIVAL
Sun 1
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
The DREAM SPACE
Tue 3 – Sat 14
The Dream Space at Shakespeare’s Globe
SHAKESPEARE FOUND IN TRANSLATION NEILS BRUNSE
Wed 18
Nancy W Knowles Lecture Theatre
SHAKESPEARE FOUND IN MANDARIN
Sun 29
Nancy W Knowles Lecture Theatre
May Events
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Venue
SHAKESPEARE FOUND IN ARABIC
Sat 5
Nancy W Knowles Lecture Theatre
February Events
Date
Venue
READ NOT DEAD: LIFE IS A DREAM
Sun 5
Globe Education Sackler Studios & Nancy W Knowles Lecture Theatre
IT IS THE EAST: MIDDLE EAST
Sat 11
Globe Education Sackler Studios & Nancy W Knowles Lecture Theatre
IT IS THE EAST: EASTERN EUROPE
Sat 25
Globe Education Sackler Studios & Nancy W Knowles Lecture Theatre
March Events
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Venue
SHAKESPEARE FOUND IN POLISH
Wed 9
Nancy W Knowles Lecture Theatre
PLAYING SHAKESPEARE with Deutsche bank: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
Fri 2 – Sat 3
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
SHAKESPEARE FOUND IN the BALKANS
Sat 12
Nancy W Knowles Lecture Theatre
READ NOT DEAD: BONDUCA
Sun 11
Globe Education Sackler Studios & Nancy W Knowles Lecture Theatre
SHAKESPEARE FOUND IN MEXICAN SPANISH
Mon 14 Nancy W Knowles Lecture Theatre
OUR THEATRE: ROMEO AND JULIET
Thu 15
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
INTERCULTURAL SYMPOSIUM
Fri 18 – Sat 19
Globe Education Sackler Studios & Nancy W Knowles Lecture Theatre
SHAKESPEARE FOUND IN BSL
Wed 23
Nancy W Knowles Lecture Theatre
IT IS THE EAST: EASTERN ASIA
Sat 17
Globe Education Sackler Studios & Nancy W Knowles Lecture Theatre
SHAKESPEARE FOUND IN YoRUBA
Fri 25
Nancy W Knowles Lecture Theatre
IT IS THE EAST: MUSIC session
Sat 17
UnderGlobe, Shakespeare’s Globe
SHAKESPEARE FOUND IN Hebrew
Tues 29
Nancy W Knowles Lecture Theatre
SAM WANAMAKER FELLOWSHIP – TON HOENSeLAARS
Tue 20
Nancy W Knowles Lecture Theatre
RUTGERS: AS YOU LIKE IT
Fri 23
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
READ NOT DEAD: THE SPANISH TRAGEDY
Sun 25
Globe Education Sackler Studios & Nancy W Knowles Lecture Theatre
For more information and to find out more about Globe Education please visit the website
shakespearesglobe.com
THE THE DREAM Space TUESDAY 3RD to SATURDAY 14TH APRIL The Dream Space is a place of playfulness, imagination, invention and sanctuary… such a place that dreams are made within. Taking place within The Dream Space, Globe Education will bring the illusion, magic and mystery of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream to life in 60 minute storytelling sessions staged during the Easter holidays 2012.
Dates
Tuesday 3rd April – Saturday 14th April (no sessions 6th and 8th April)
Times 11.00 and 14.00 60 min sessions (2 storytelling sessions per day)
Venue
The Dream Space at Shakespeare’s Globe
Tickets
All tickets £8
FAMILY Tickets
£25 (4 tickets, children must be accompanied by an adult)
These storytelling sessions bring a heady mixture of creativity, fusing the ancient and global traditions of storytelling and puppetry, specifically created for a family audience.
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2012 SAM WANAMAKER FESTIVAL Sunday 1st April 46 students from leading UK drama schools and Rutgers Conservatory at Shakespeare’s Globe gather together for a weekend of workshops before presenting scenes by Shakespeare and his contemporaries on the Globe stage. The afternoon’s public performance provides a mix of tragical, historical, pastoral and comical duologues culminating in one mighty festive finale jig.
Time
16:00
Venue
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
Tickets
£10 seating/£5 standing
Supported by the Leverhulme Trust and in association with the Conference of Drama Schools
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PLAYING SHAKESPEARE WITH DEUTSCHE BANK
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Friday 2nd March, 7pm Saturday 3rd March, 2pm Time
2nd March 19.00 3rd March 14.00
Venue
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
Tickets
Free. Public booking for free performances opens Monday 20th February
Over 14,000 students will receive free tickets to nine performances of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Globe Education’s sixth professional production created especially for young people at the Globe. The performances on 2nd and 3rd March are free to members of the general public thanks to the generosity of Deutsche Bank. Free web resources created especially for the project and supporting the study of Shakespeare at Key Stage 3 nationally and internationally will be available. Students from participating schools will receive free workshops. www.playingshakespeare.org
Media Partner
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OUR THEATRE
RUTGERS CONSERVATORY AT SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE
Romeo and juliet
AS YOU LIKE IT
Thursday 15th March
Friday 23rd March
The annual Our Theatre production has been Globe Education’s flagship community project since 1997.
Conservatory Acting students from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, spend their entire third year of study at Shakespeare’s Globe. The students take classes in acting, voice, movement, text, dance, dialect, singing and stage combat, and immerse themselves in London life, history and culture. The students end their Globe residency with a performance on the Globe stage before returning to Rutgers for their final year of training. This year’s play As You Like It is directed by Timothy Walker.
This year over 500 students from Southwark schools will work with their teachers and Globe Education Practitioners to create an ensemble performance recreating Shakespeare’s tragic love story on the Globe Stage. Time
13:00
Venue
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
Tickets
Free. Limited number available and must be booked in advance. Please email community@ shakespearesglobe.com
Supported by
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Time
18.30 – 20.30
Venue
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
Tickets
A limited number of free tickets are available for this workshop performance. Please email courses@shakespearesglobe. com or call 020 7902 1469 for further information.
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LOCAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL OUTREACH
GLOBE EDUCATION OUTREACH
A CONCERT FOR WINTER
Bring Globe Education into your school, college or university to support your work and explore Shakespeare’s language, characters, themes and context. We seek to stimulate and inspire participants through an active, practical engagement with Shakespeare’s work, bringing techniques used in the rehearsal room and on stage at Shakespeare’s Globe to people of all ages worldwide. Recent outreach sessions have taken place in London, Chichester, Glasgow, Germany, Hong Kong and Beirut. To book a workshop, discuss your needs, or to get more information about outreach with Globe Education, please contact David Workman via email at david.w@shakespearesglobe.com, or by telephone on 020 7902 1463. Longer-term projects and residencies can be created in conjunction with Globe Education.
Thursday 19 january Photo: Outreach workshop 2009 Photographer: Nick Gurney
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Globe Education has been instrumental in making Shakespeare visible and real for both students and teachers in Service Children’s Education. The impact at all levels of education worldwide in our schools is outstanding and impressive.
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Joy Harris, Performing Arts Consultant, Service Children’s Education
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The spring season begins with our annual A Concert for Winter, Shakespeare’s Globe’s celebration of the sounds of Southwark. A Concert for Winter will provide a chorus of music and song, celebrating the work and creativity of Southwark community groups and schools. Everyone is invited. Time
13.00
Venue
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
Tickets
Supported by
In partnership with
Admission free but tickets must be booked in advance, Email: community@ shakespearesglobe.com
INTERNATIONAL INSIGHTS Audio Interviews online with each of the Globe to Globe Companies
Shakespeare’s
coming home
Globe to globe 21st April – 9th June The Shakespeare Found in Translation Intercultural season will support Shakespeare’s Globe in its hosting of the international Globe to Globe Festival. Globe to Globe will stage all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays, in 37 different languages in 6 weeks: shakespearesglobe.com/globetoglobe. This festival is Shakespeare’s Globe’s cultural offer to the London 2012 Festival, a key part of the World Shakespeare Festival.
box office 020 7401 9919
shakespearesglobe.com Shakespeare’s Globe, Bankside, London SE1
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International Insights will give website visitors the chance to hear some of the incredible theatrical, emotional and physical journeys that the Globe to Globe companies have undertaken in their mission to perform on our landmark stage. The unique audio interviews with each of the 37 companies will have an emphasis on Shakespeare in translation; its difficulties and its successes; as such each interview will have dual language audio and complimentary written information. International Insights is an exciting open digital resource for all Globe enthusiasts; locally, nationally and internationally. globetoglobe.shakespearesglobe. com/education
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