World Shakespeare Festival
The World Shakespere Festival will celebrate Shakespeare through a series of international collaborations.
The project is an unprecedented celebration of Shakespeare in performance, led by the Royal Shakespeare Company. It celebrates Shakespeare as international property and the British as an international people and will focus on the relationship between the many communities of the world’s diaspora represented in the UK.
The central spine of the Festival will be a series of high-profile collaborative productions with UK theatre companies and their international counterparts from ten Olympic nations and regions, starting on Shakespeare’s birthday, 23 April 2012, for three months.
It will be in three main hubs; Stratford-upon-Avon, Newcastle and London, where it will culminate just before the Games. Major UK partners already include the National Theatre and Shakespeare’s Globe.
The theme of collaboration will feed through into UK-wide participatory projects for amateur and community groups, young people and schools, which will develop from late 2009, with regional celebrations leading to performances in Stratford-upon-Avon in Spring/Summer 2012.
A Shakespeare programme involving the amateur and voluntary arts sector is being devised with the Voluntary Arts Network, to create new models of professional/amateur collaboration.
Participants will share skills, encouraging a mix of artforms and providing opportunities for increasing participation in the performance of Shakespeare. The celebration will bring an international dimension to the RSC’s schools network, activating youth participation through new networks.
The central spine of the Festival will be a series of high-profile collaborative productions with UK theatre companies and their international counterparts from ten Olympic nations and regions, starting on Shakespeare’s birthday, 23 April 2012, for three months.
It will be in three main hubs; Stratford-upon-Avon, Newcastle and London, where it will culminate just before the Games. Major UK partners already include the National Theatre and Shakespeare’s Globe.
The theme of collaboration will feed through into UK-wide participatory projects for amateur and community groups, young people and schools, which will develop from late 2009, with regional celebrations leading to performances in Stratford-upon-Avon in Spring/Summer 2012.
A Shakespeare programme involving the amateur and voluntary arts sector is being devised with the Voluntary Arts Network, to create new models of professional/amateur collaboration.
Participants will share skills, encouraging a mix of artforms and providing opportunities for increasing participation in the performance of Shakespeare. The celebration will bring an international dimension to the RSC’s schools network, activating youth participation through new networks.
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