London Shakespeare fest for "world's playwright"

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By Alice Baghdjian

LONDON | Tue Sep 6, 2011 2:46pm EDT

LONDON (Reuters) - All the world's a stage in Shakespeare's home country as organizers announced the launch of the World Shakespeare Festival in London on Tuesday.

The April 23 to November 2012 festival, conceived as part of London 2012 Festival and described as an "unprecedented and outrageous collaboration" by organizers, is set to unite Shakespeare fans from across the globe in a multicultural and polyglot appreciation of the Bard in a technological age.

"Previous festivals of Shakespeare have been an old kind of festival, but this World Shakespeare Festival is for a new era," Deborah Shaw, World Shakespeare Festival Director.

A "World Wide Classroom," allowing teachers and pupils around the world to share information about Shakespeare in their culture, as well as the launch of specially commissioned digital materials for schools called "Shakespeare Unlocked," means that participation in the festival is not limited to the people of Britain.

"Four years ago, we began conversations with artists, producers, educationalists and curators from across the UK and the World, to seed and shape a festival that celebrates Shakespeare and redefines what a festival can be in this era of globalization," Shaw said.

"Anyone in the world can take part in this Shakespeare festival through its digital projects," she said.

The launch comes as the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and the British Council revealed that 50 percent of the world's children study Shakespeare in school.

The more traditional festival staple of performances of the Bard's works will include a lineup of all 37 of his plays in 37 languages at Shakespeare's Globe Theater on the banks of the river Thames in London. One million tickets will be on sale from Oct 10.

Theater goers can expect performances in Xhosa and Swahili, as well as theater companies from Turkey, Greece, Albania, and even a group from New Zealand performing in Maori.

WORLD'S PLAYWRIGHT

The festival program will also feature 23 brand new productions across Britain, most of which were commissioned specially for the festival.

"The festival will be a carnival of stories - we have theater companies from warzones as well as underground theater companies participating," said Dominic Dromgoole, Artistic Director at the Globe.

"A Globe by the Thames is where the wonderful cultural and imaginative journey of these plays began. Another Globe by the Thames is honored to be inviting Shakespeare back home, dressed in the clothes of many different people," he said.

It is Shakespeare's depiction of human qualities which lends to the success and resonance of his works in other cultures, making him "the world's playwright," organizers say.

"Shakespeare is no longer English property. He is the favorite playwright and artist of the whole world. People of all races, creeds and continents have chosen to gather around his work to share stories of what it is like to be human," said Michael Boyd, artistic director of the RSC.

"Shakespeare is a lingua franca deeper than just any language. It can help us to talk about autocracy and civil war -- his works are a brilliant Trojan horse," he said.

(Editing by Paul Casciato)

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Oriental Shakespeare, Ravi Shankar at Edinburgh festival

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Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar performs in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata February 7, 2009.

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By Ian MacKenzie

EDINBURGH | Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:46pm EDT

EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Indian musician Ravi Shankar and Asian versions of Shakespeare are among highlights of this year's Edinburgh International Festival, as EIF director Jonathan Mills completes a five-year artistic tour of the world.

The EIF, running from August 12 to September 4, combines with the Fringe and the city's International Book Festival and military tattoo to offer the world's biggest annual extravaganza of the arts.

Mills unveiled the EIF program on Wednesday in what he called "an attempt to make very mainstream the ideas of Asian culture and the ideas of Asia's influence on Europe and Europe's influence on Asia -- it's a very, very important bridge we build and forge."

Over the past five years, he has ranged from the origins of opera to the eastern fringes of Europe, the Americas, the Pacific and Australasia in his global artistic voyage.

This year's productions provide a rich and colorful mix from Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, India and the Middle East. colorful Legendary 90-year-old sitar player Ravi Shankar, dubbed by Beatle George Harrison as "the Godfather of world music," is back after more than 20 years with a programme of evening ragas. Music also includes a series of international orchestras.

The Arab tale of "One Thousand and One Nights," dramatized and directed by Tim Supple with stories adapted by acclaimed Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh, is in rehearsal in Morocco and premieres in Toronto before heading for Edinburgh.

Edinburgh will see the world premiere of "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle," a play in Japanese adapted from Haruki Murakami's novel on a disintegrating marriage and revelation of long-buried World War Two secrets.

South Korea's Mokhwa Repertory Company transports Shakespeare's "The Tempest" to 5th century Korea with Taoist magic and royal banishment, while Taiwanese actor Wu Hsing-kuo writes, directs and performs in his version of "King Lear."

The Shanghai Peking Opera Troupe presents "The Revenge of Prince Zi Da" in what the EIF promises will be an adaptation of "Hamlet" "unlike any you will have experienced."

In dance, New York-based choreographer Shen Wei brings "Re-Triptych" to the stage with ancient and modern takes on Tibet, Cambodia's Angkor Wat and the frenetic pace of 21st century China.

The Mariinsky Opera of St Petersburg will put on a production of Richard Strauss's "Woman Without a Shadow," while Scottish Ballet premieres a work by Jorma Elo, resident choreographer of the Boston Ballet.

The EIF kicks off on August 12 with Robert Schumann's oratorio "Paradise and the Peri" based on Persian mythology, with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Festival Chorus.

Despite economic recession, Mills said the EIF's finances were "strong and robust -- We're about to find out how they are in terms of ticket sales." Edinburgh doubles in size with about half a million visitors during the festival period.

The International Festival and the Fringe were founded in 1947 as an antidote to the austerity post-World War Two.

(Reporting by Mike Collett-White)

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Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar performs in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata February 7, 2009.

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By Ian MacKenzie

EDINBURGH | Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:46pm EDT

EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Indian musician Ravi Shankar and Asian versions of Shakespeare are among highlights of this year's Edinburgh International Festival, as EIF director Jonathan Mills completes a five-year artistic tour of the world.

The EIF, running from August 12 to September 4, combines with the Fringe and the city's International Book Festival and military tattoo to offer the world's biggest annual extravaganza of the arts.

Mills unveiled the EIF program on Wednesday in what he called "an attempt to make very mainstream the ideas of Asian culture and the ideas of Asia's influence on Europe and Europe's influence on Asia -- it's a very, very important bridge we build and forge."

Over the past five years, he has ranged from the origins of opera to the eastern fringes of Europe, the Americas, the Pacific and Australasia in his global artistic voyage.

This year's productions provide a rich and colorful mix from Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, India and the Middle East. colorful Legendary 90-year-old sitar player Ravi Shankar, dubbed by Beatle George Harrison as "the Godfather of world music," is back after more than 20 years with a programme of evening ragas. Music also includes a series of international orchestras.

The Arab tale of "One Thousand and One Nights," dramatized and directed by Tim Supple with stories adapted by acclaimed Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh, is in rehearsal in Morocco and premieres in Toronto before heading for Edinburgh.

Edinburgh will see the world premiere of "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle," a play in Japanese adapted from Haruki Murakami's novel on a disintegrating marriage and revelation of long-buried World War Two secrets.

South Korea's Mokhwa Repertory Company transports Shakespeare's "The Tempest" to 5th century Korea with Taoist magic and royal banishment, while Taiwanese actor Wu Hsing-kuo writes, directs and performs in his version of "King Lear."

The Shanghai Peking Opera Troupe presents "The Revenge of Prince Zi Da" in what the EIF promises will be an adaptation of "Hamlet" "unlike any you will have experienced."

In dance, New York-based choreographer Shen Wei brings "Re-Triptych" to the stage with ancient and modern takes on Tibet, Cambodia's Angkor Wat and the frenetic pace of 21st century China.

The Mariinsky Opera of St Petersburg will put on a production of Richard Strauss's "Woman Without a Shadow," while Scottish Ballet premieres a work by Jorma Elo, resident choreographer of the Boston Ballet.

The EIF kicks off on August 12 with Robert Schumann's oratorio "Paradise and the Peri" based on Persian mythology, with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Festival Chorus.

Despite economic recession, Mills said the EIF's finances were "strong and robust -- We're about to find out how they are in terms of ticket sales." Edinburgh doubles in size with about half a million visitors during the festival period.

The International Festival and the Fringe were founded in 1947 as an antidote to the austerity post-World War Two.

(Reporting by Mike Collett-White)

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Oriental Shakespeare, Ravi Shankar at Edinburgh festival

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Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar performs in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata February 7, 2009.

Credit: Reuters/Jayanta Shaw

By Ian MacKenzie

EDINBURGH | Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:46pm EDT

EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Indian musician Ravi Shankar and Asian versions of Shakespeare are among highlights of this year's Edinburgh International Festival, as EIF director Jonathan Mills completes a five-year artistic tour of the world.

The EIF, running from August 12 to September 4, combines with the Fringe and the city's International Book Festival and military tattoo to offer the world's biggest annual extravaganza of the arts.

Mills unveiled the EIF program on Wednesday in what he called "an attempt to make very mainstream the ideas of Asian culture and the ideas of Asia's influence on Europe and Europe's influence on Asia -- it's a very, very important bridge we build and forge."

Over the past five years, he has ranged from the origins of opera to the eastern fringes of Europe, the Americas, the Pacific and Australasia in his global artistic voyage.

This year's productions provide a rich and colorful mix from Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, India and the Middle East. colorful Legendary 90-year-old sitar player Ravi Shankar, dubbed by Beatle George Harrison as "the Godfather of world music," is back after more than 20 years with a programme of evening ragas. Music also includes a series of international orchestras.

The Arab tale of "One Thousand and One Nights," dramatized and directed by Tim Supple with stories adapted by acclaimed Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh, is in rehearsal in Morocco and premieres in Toronto before heading for Edinburgh.

Edinburgh will see the world premiere of "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle," a play in Japanese adapted from Haruki Murakami's novel on a disintegrating marriage and revelation of long-buried World War Two secrets.

South Korea's Mokhwa Repertory Company transports Shakespeare's "The Tempest" to 5th century Korea with Taoist magic and royal banishment, while Taiwanese actor Wu Hsing-kuo writes, directs and performs in his version of "King Lear."

The Shanghai Peking Opera Troupe presents "The Revenge of Prince Zi Da" in what the EIF promises will be an adaptation of "Hamlet" "unlike any you will have experienced."

In dance, New York-based choreographer Shen Wei brings "Re-Triptych" to the stage with ancient and modern takes on Tibet, Cambodia's Angkor Wat and the frenetic pace of 21st century China.

The Mariinsky Opera of St Petersburg will put on a production of Richard Strauss's "Woman Without a Shadow," while Scottish Ballet premieres a work by Jorma Elo, resident choreographer of the Boston Ballet.

The EIF kicks off on August 12 with Robert Schumann's oratorio "Paradise and the Peri" based on Persian mythology, with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Festival Chorus.

Despite economic recession, Mills said the EIF's finances were "strong and robust -- We're about to find out how they are in terms of ticket sales." Edinburgh doubles in size with about half a million visitors during the festival period.

The International Festival and the Fringe were founded in 1947 as an antidote to the austerity post-World War Two.

(Reporting by Mike Collett-White)

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