Download Shakespeare`s Globe to offer two Chinese

Shakespeare’s Globe to offer two Chinese-language Shakespeare
productions this summer
Thursday 11 June
Shakespeare’s Globe is delighted to welcome back two Chinese companies from the hugely
successful Globe to Globe festival of international Shakespeare this summer. From 20 to 25
July, the National Theatre of China will perform their Richard III in Mandarin. Then from 17
to 23 August, the Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio from Hong Kong will stage their brand
new production of Macbeth in Cantonese. Both productions will have scene synopses in
English.
In 2012, the Globe invited theatre companies from around the world to stage all 37 of
Shakespeare’s works in 37 different languages for the Globe to Globe festival, part of the
Cultural Olympiad. Since then, foreign companies have been invited back each summer to
perform Shakespeare’s work in their own languages.
Following their first visit to the UK during the 2012 festival, the National Theatre of China
will once again present their Richard III in Mandarin. Despite the company losing all their
intricate, colourful costumes in a cargo container en route to the UK, the show was described
as “spellbinding” by The Arts Desk and received a four-star review from The Guardian. This
time in full costume, Shakespeare’s ghoulish horrorshow of power and paranoia will play four
performances only from Monday 20 July.
Described as the ‘alchemist of minimalist theatre’, Hong Kong’s Tang Shu-wing Theatre
Studio works with pared-back staging, voice and movement to release the energies of
classic texts. The company marked their first visit to the UK with a beautifully stylised
interpretation of Shakespeare’s grisly tragedy Titus Andronicus as part of the Globe to Globe
festival; they return on Monday 17 August with the world première of their brand new
production of Macbeth.
Tom Bird, Executive Producer of the Globe Theatre, said: “The Globe has been engaged
in a conversation with Chinese theatre artists since 2012, when the Globe to Globe festival
included plays in both Mandarin and Cantonese. In 2014, our large-scale tour of A
Midsummer Night’s Dream travelled to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hangzhou and Hong
Kong, incorporating traditional Chinese instruments into its musical score. We are thrilled that
this dialogue continues in 2015, as our worldwide Hamlet tour visits China, and the National
Theatre of China and Tang Shu-wing Studio return to the Globe, with two extraordinary
shows that will appeal to British and Chinese audiences alike.”
Shakespeare’s Globe is thrilled to be taking its unprecedented Globe to Globe Hamlet
tour to the Daguan Theatre in Shanghai on 1 August, the National Centre for the Performing
Arts in Beijing on 5 August and to the Lyric Theatre at the Hong Kong Academy for
Performing Arts on 4 September.
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EDITORS’ NOTES
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Mon-Sat 10am-6pm (8pm on performance days)
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£5 - £39 (Richard III and Macbeth)
Patrons who are members of the free access scheme are eligible for adjusted ticket prices.
Full listings
Richard III in Mandarin (with scene synopses in English)
Monday 20 July, 7.30pm
Tuesday 21 July, 2pm
Friday 24 July, 7.30pm
Saturday 25 July, 2pm
Macbeth in Cantonese (with scene synopses in English)
Monday 17 August, 7.30pm
Tuesday 18 August, 2pm
Saturday 22 August, 7.30pm
Sunday 23 August, 1pm
For more information please contact Emma Draper or Claudia Conway on +44 (0) 207
902 1491 / 1492 or
email [email protected] /[email protected]
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