Globe to Globe Festival
The Globe to Globe Festival ran from 23 April to 9 June 2012 as part of the World Shakespeare Festival, itself part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad. The festival's director was Tom Bird.
The Globe to Globe Festival hosted 37 productions of Shakespeare's plays in 37 different languages over a six-week period. The festival was primarily intended to be an experiment with foreign language Shakespeare in the languages of London, however, it also aimed to discover how important Shakespeare is to the rest of the world. The Festival was recorded through blog responses on the Theatre's own website and on the Year of Shakespeare blog.
More than 100,000 people attended the performances, 80% of whom had not previously been to the Globe.
Performances
| Play | Language | Company |
| Taming of the Shrew | Urdu |  Theatre Walley, Pakistan |
| Venus and Adonis | Zulu, Xhosa, Sesotho, Setswana, Afrikaans, English |  Isango Ensemble |
| Troilus & Cressida | Māori |  Ngākau Toa |
| Measure for Measure | Russian |  Vakhtangov Theatre |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | Swahili |  Bitter Pill |
| Pericles | Greek |  National Theatre of Greece |
| Twelfth Night | Hindi |  Company Theatre |
| Richard III | Mandarin |  National Theatre Company of China |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Korean |  Yohangza Theatre Company |
| Julius Caesar | Italian |  I Termini Company |
| Cymbeline | Juba Arabic |  The South Sudan Theatre Company |
| Titus Andronicus | Cantonese |  Tang Shu-Wing Theatre Studio |
| Richard II | Palestinian Arabic |  Ashtar Theatre |
| Othello | English Hip Hop |  Q Brothers / Chicago Shakespeare Theatre / Richard Jordan Productions |
| The Tempest | Bangla |  Dhaka Theatre |
| Macbeth | Polish |  Teatr im. Kochanowskiego |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | Shona |  Two Gents Productions |
| ' | Serbian |  National Theatre in Belgrade |
| ' | Albanian |  National Theatre of Albania |
| ' | Macedonian |  National Theatre of Bitola |
| ' | Mexican Spanish |  National Theatre Company of Mexico |
| Argentine Spanish |  Elkafka Espacio Teatral | |
| King John | Armenian |  Gabriel Sundukyan National Academic Theatre |
| King Lear | Belarusian |  Belarus Free Theatre |
| As You Like It | Georgian |  Marjanishvili Theatre |
| Romeo & Juliet | Brazilian Portuguese |  Grupo Galpão |
| Coriolanus | Japanese |  Chiten |
| Love's Labour's Lost | British Sign Language |  Deafinitely Theatre |
| All's Well that Ends Well | Gujarati | Arpana |
| The Winter's Tale | Yoruba |  Renegade Theatre |
| The Taming of the Shrew | Urdu |  Theatre Wallay |
| Antony and Cleopatra | Turkish |  Oyun Atölyesi |
| The Merchant of Venice | Hebrew |  Habima National Theatre |
| Henry VIII | Castilian Spanish |  Rakatá |
| The Comedy of Errors | Dari Persian |  Roy-e-Sabs |
| Timon of Athens | German |  Bremer Shakespeare Company |
| Much Ado About Nothing | French |  Compagnie Hypermobile |
| Hamlet | Lithuanian |  Meno Fortas |
| Henry V | English | Shakespeare's Globe |