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ARMENIAN COMPANY TO PARTICIPATE IN SHAKESPEARE FEST IN LONDON
PanARMENIAN.Net
September 7, 2011 - 14:56 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - More than a million tickets go on sale next month
for an explosion of Shakespeare productions that will coincide with
the London Olympics.
They will involve thousands of actors, hundreds of professional and
amateur theatre companies, and scores of languages, all part of the
biggest Shakespeare festival ever organized, The Guardian reported.
Details were announced as new research commissioned by the Royal
Shakespeare Company and the British Council revealed that the bard
is the world's most studied author, pored over by half the world's
schoolchildren, at least 64 million each year. His work is a compulsory
secondary school subject in countries including Azerbaijan, China,
Oman, the Philippines and Vietnam.
The Globe, the recreation on Bankside in London of Shakespeare's own
theatre, is mounting all 37 of his plays, presented by guest companies
in 37 languages, including Arabic, Yoruba and Armenian.
Globe artistic director Dominic Dromgoole is particularly proud of
including a company from "the newest country in the world, South Sudan,
which has yet to celebrate its first birthday". It will perform in
Juba Arabic. An Iraqi company is bringing a Romeo and Juliet, where
the warring families are Sunni and Shia, and a company from Tunisia
is staging a version of Macbeth looking at power and repression among
Arab leaders.
PanARMENIAN.Net
September 7, 2011 - 14:56 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - More than a million tickets go on sale next month
for an explosion of Shakespeare productions that will coincide with
the London Olympics.
They will involve thousands of actors, hundreds of professional and
amateur theatre companies, and scores of languages, all part of the
biggest Shakespeare festival ever organized, The Guardian reported.
Details were announced as new research commissioned by the Royal
Shakespeare Company and the British Council revealed that the bard
is the world's most studied author, pored over by half the world's
schoolchildren, at least 64 million each year. His work is a compulsory
secondary school subject in countries including Azerbaijan, China,
Oman, the Philippines and Vietnam.
The Globe, the recreation on Bankside in London of Shakespeare's own
theatre, is mounting all 37 of his plays, presented by guest companies
in 37 languages, including Arabic, Yoruba and Armenian.
Globe artistic director Dominic Dromgoole is particularly proud of
including a company from "the newest country in the world, South Sudan,
which has yet to celebrate its first birthday". It will perform in
Juba Arabic. An Iraqi company is bringing a Romeo and Juliet, where
the warring families are Sunni and Shia, and a company from Tunisia
is staging a version of Macbeth looking at power and repression among
Arab leaders.