Globe to Globe: producer Tom Bird sums up

18th June 2012

 

INTERVIEW: TOM BIRD

The producer of Globe to Globe, the ambitious season which saw all 37 Shakespeare plays staged at Shakespeare’s Globe in foreign-language productions from every corner of the world, talks to Heather Neill about the project, its aims and achievements. Recorded at the Globe, 13 June 2012.

The Afghans didn’t want to take on one of the bloody history plays or a tragedy, as you might expect, but were keen to do something completely different – The Comedy of Errors.