TITLE COMPANY LOCATION DATES PAGE VENUE PRODUCTIONS 2007: MACBETH TR WARSZAWA EDINBURGH 10 AUGUST - 27 EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2 SEPTEMBER THE COMEDY OF ERRORS ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY STRATFORD-UPON-AVON 16 MARCH - 14 MAY 4 ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE 16 JULY - 6 OCTOBER LONDON 1 JUNE - 4 JULY 18 ROUNDHOUSE CORIOLAN/US NATIONAL THEATRE WALES BRIDGEND AUGUST 26 DRAGON FILM STUDIOS CYMBELINE NINAGAWA COMPANY / BARBICAN LONDON 29 MAY - 2 JUNE 16 BARBICAN THEATRE THE DARK SIDE OF LOVE ROUNDHOUSE COMPANY / LIFT LONDON 25 JUNE - 8 JULY 19 ROUNDHOUSE DESDEMONA BARBICAN LONDON JULY 16 BARBICAN HALL FORESTS BIRMINGHAM REPERTORY THEATRE / BIRMINGHAM 31 AUGUST - 25 OLD REP THEATRE BARCELONA INTERNACIONAL TEATRE 15 SEPTEMBER GLOBE TO GLOBE SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE LONDON 23 APRIL - 3 JUNE 14 & 15 SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE I, CINNA (THE POET) ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY STRATFORD-UPON-AVON 13 JUNE - 6 JULY 10 SWAN THEATRE IN A PICKLE OILY CART / STRATFORD-UPON-AVON 23 MAY - 17 JUNE 10 SWAN ROOM ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY LONDON 19 - 23 JUNE 17 STRATFORD CIRCUS NEWCASTLE / GATESHEAD 27 - 30 JUNE 25 NORTHERN STAGE JULIUS CAESAR ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY STRATFORD-UPON-AVON 28 MAY - 7 JULY 9 ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE NEWCASTLE / GATESHEAD 19 - 28 JULY 25 NEWCASTLE THEATRE ROYAL KING JOHN ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY STRATFORD-UPON-AVON 6 APRIL - 15 SEPTEMBER 7 SWAN THEATRE KING LEAR ALMEIDA THEATRE LONDON 31 AUGUST - 21 ALMEIDA THEATRE 3 NOVEMBER MACBETH: LEÏLA AND BEN - ARTISTES, PRODUCTEURS, ASSOCIÉS LONDON 4 - 7 JULY 21 LIFT AT RIVERSIDE STUDIOS A BLOODY HISTORY NEWCASTLE / GATESHEAD 12 - 14 JULY 24 NORTHERN STAGE A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM CHEKHOV INTERNATIONAL STRATFORD-UPON-AVON 10 - 18 AUGUST 12 ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE (AS YOU LIKE IT) THEATRE FESTIVAL / EDINBURGH 10 AUGUST - 27 EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL DMITRY KRYMOV’S LABORATORY / 2 SEPTEMBER SCHOOL OF DRAMATIC ART THEATRE MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY STRATFORD-UPON-AVON 26 JULY - 15 SEPTEMBER 11 THE COURTYARD THEATRE OPEN STAGES ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY STRATFORD-UPON-AVON 13 - 22 JULY 28 STRATFORD-UPON-AVON PERICLES ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY LONDON 5 & 19 ROUNDHOUSE PILOT NIGHT PILOT / STRATFORD-UPON-AVON 12 JULY 13 THE COURTYARD THEATRE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY THE REST IS SILENCE dreamthinkspeak BRIGHTON 5 - 27 MAY 26 BRIGHTON FESTIVAL LONDON 12 - 23 JUNE 20 LIFT AT RIVERSIDE STUDIOS NEWCASTLE / GATESHEAD 26 - 30 JUNE 24 NORTHERN STAGE RICHARD III ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY STRATFORD-UPON-AVON 22 MARCH - 6 SWAN THEATRE 15 SEPTEMBER ROMEO AND JULIET IN BAGHDAD IRAQI THEATRE COMPANY STRATFORD-UPON-AVON 26 APRIL - 5 MAY 8 SWAN THEATRE LONDON 28 - 30 JUNE 20 LIFT AT RIVERSIDE STUDIOS A SOLDIER IN EVERY SON – NATIONAL THEATRE OF MEXICO / STRATFORD-UPON-AVON 29 JUNE - 28 JULY 7 SWAN THEATRE AN AZTEC TRILOGY ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY THE TEMPEST ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY STRATFORD-UPON-AVON 30 MARCH - 19 MAY 5 ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE 13 JULY – 7 OCTOBER LONDON 9 JUNE - 5 JULY 19 ROUNDHOUSE A TENDER THING ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY STRATFORD-UPON-AVON 27 SEPTEMBER - 13 SWAN THEATRE 20 OCTOBER TIMON OF ATHENS NATIONAL THEATRE LONDON FROM JULY 17 OLIVIER THEATRE TROILUS AND CRESSIDA THE WOOSTER GROUP / STRATFORD-UPON-AVON 3 - 18 AUGUST 12 SWAN THEATRE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY TWELFTH NIGHT ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY STRATFORD-UPON-AVON 8 MARCH - 15 MAY 4 ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE 12 JULY - 6 OCTOBER LONDON 5 JUNE - 5 JULY 18 ROUNDHOUSE TWO ROSES FOR RICHARD III COMPANHIA BUFOMECÂNICA / STRATFORD-UPON-AVON 7 - 12 MAY 8 THE COURTYARD THEATRE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY LONDON 18 - 23 MAY 18 ROUNDHOUSE WEST SIDE STORY SAGE GATESHEAD / NEWCASTLE / GATESHEAD 4 - 7 JULY 24 THE SAGE GATESHEAD ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY’S OPEN STAGES EXHIBITIONS LIVING WALLS SQUIDSOUP STRATFORD-UPON-AVON 21 APRIL - 9 SEPTEMBER 13 ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE SHAKESPEARE: STAGING THE WORLD BRITISH MUSEUM LONDON 19 JULY - 25 NOVEMBER 22 BRITISH MUSEUM THE STORIES OF SHAKESPEARE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY / STRATFORD-UPON-AVON 21 APRIL - 31 DECEMBER 13 ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE / THE SHAKESPEARE BIRTHPLACE SHAKESPEARE BIRTHPLACE TRUST TRUST PROPERTIES CONFERENCES WORLDS TOGETHER TATE MODERN / BRITISH MUSEUM / LONDON 6 - 8 SEPTEMBER 23 CLORE LEARNING CENTRE, TATE MODERN NATIONAL THEATRE / ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ONLINE MY SHAKESPEARE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ONLINE 2012 29 WORLDSHAKESPEAREFESTIVAL.ORG.UK BOOKING INFORMATION 31 Key = Exact dates to be announced. Please see www.worldshakespearefestival.org.uk or individual venue websites for more information. STRATFORD-UPON-AVON LONDON The London 2012 Cultural Olympiad is the largest cultural The World Shakespeare Festival is a celebration of celebration in the history of the modern Olympic and Shakespeare as the world’s playwright, produced by the Paralympic Movements. The culmination of the Cultural Royal Shakespeare Company in an unprecedented Olympiad will be the London 2012 Festival. We are delighted collaboration with leading UK and international arts to have the World Shakespeare Festival as part of it; we organisations and with Globe to Globe, a major international thank the Olympic Lottery Distributor and Arts Council programme produced by Shakespeare’s Globe. England as principal funders and welcome BP, already a NEWCASTLE/GATESHEAD Premier Partner of the Cultural Olympiad and London 2012 Ruth Mackenzie Festival, as the Founding Presenting Partner. Director of the Cultural Olympiad and London 2012 Festival BIRMINGHAM Shakespeare is no longer English property. He is the These artists, home-grown and from abroad, will push the favourite playwright and artist of the whole world, boundaries of performance, and refl ect the cultural shifting and studied at school by half the world’s children. of our contemporary world, through Shakespeare’s plays that speak across geographies and generations. People of all races, creeds and continents have chosen to gather around his work to share stories of what it is like to The RSC is contributing a dozen new productions of its own. be human. To fall in love or fall from grace. To be subject to Some refl ect the rich mix of cultures within British society; BRIDGEND the abuse of power or to live with the dreams of angels in the some are co-productions with international companies and shadow of our own mortality. some explore non-theatre spaces and new journeys for our audiences. The World Shakespeare Festival celebrates this most international of artists at a time when the eyes of the world With Open Stages we celebrate the UK’s great are on London, that most international of cities, and on the amateur performance tradition like never before. whole of the UK for the Olympic Games. With My Shakespeare we invite everyone in the world to contribute their visions of Shakespeare online. With our From Shakespeare’s birthday, April 23rd 2012, we’ve invited International Education Conference we explore how BRIGHTON some of the world’s leading artists and theatre-makers to Shakespeare is being taught to half the children in the world. create new productions and responses to Shakespeare, which will play until Autumn in the Royal Shakespeare Wherever you come from, and whatever language you speak, Company’s three theatres in Stratford-upon-Avon, across we welcome you to this great Shakespeare celebration. London in partnership with ten major theatres, LIFT and the British Museum and in Newcastle, Gateshead, Wales, Deborah Shaw, World Shakespeare Festival Director Birmingham, at the Edinburgh International Festival, Michael Boyd, Artistic Director, Royal Shakespeare Company Brighton Festival and on the BBC. EDINBURGH Over the last 400 years, Shakespeare’s plays have travelled Every day for six weeks, national theatres, far and wide. On their travels they have midwifed new theatre renowned artists and new young companies cultures, spread light and laughter, and helped nations, will celebrate performing Shakespeare in new and old, to defi ne themselves. Wherever they have gone, their own language, within the architecture they have dug deep into the local soil, and have reshaped the Shakespeare wrote for. The Globe is air around them. delighted to be bringing Shakespeare, dressed in the clothes of many nations, In this unique event of unprecedented ambition, back home to Bankside. Globe to Globe will perform all of Shakespeare’s plays, each in a different language, each from a different Dominic Dromgoole, Artistic Director international company. Shakespeare’s Globe Three plays. One company. One environment. One world world’s greatest dramatist exploring issues that are as of shipwreck, grief, laughter, love and reunion. relevant today as they were 400 years ago. The company The Royal Shakespeare Company presents a unique includes Jonathan Slinger as Malvolio and Prospero, trilogy to celebrate the World Shakespeare Festival. having recently played Macbeth in the fi rst production in the transformed Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Led by RSC Associate Director David Farr, one ensemble company of RSC actors will stage a major cycle of plays, As this body of work moves to London, it will be joined What Country Friends Is This?, exploring migration, exile, by a site-specifi c production of Pericles. Directed by RSC shipwreck and the discovery of brave new worlds. The three Artistic Director Michael Boyd and designed by Tom Piper, plays date from the early, middle and late periods of this innovative promenade production of Shakespeare’s Shakespeare’s work as he returned throughout his life to tale of journeying and discovery is presented in a bold staging further explore these themes. While each production can be at the Roundhouse, London. enjoyed on its own, seen together they are an epic trilogy by the ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare A ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY PRODUCTION A ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY PRODUCTION 16 MARCH - 14 MAY 2012 8 MARCH - 15 MAY 2012 & 16 JULY - 6 OCTOBER 2012 & 12 JULY - 6 OCTOBER 2012 Shakespeare’s joyful comedy of mistaken identity follows the Shipwrecked on the shores of a strange land, Viola believes fortunes of two sets of identical twins, accidentally separated at her twin brother Sebastian drowned.