Shakespeare's 37 Plays to Be Celebrated in 10-Minute Short Films This Spring

The New York Times reports that thirty-seven 10-minute short films will celebrate Shakespeare's 37 plays this spring as part of Shakespeare's Globe theater company's celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the playwright's death.

According to the company's official web site, the project, titled "The Complete Walk" will take place April 23 - 24 on the banks of the Thames. 37 screens along a 2.5 mile route between Westminster and Tower Bridge will play a series of specially-made short films. At the heart of each film, some of the world's finest actors will perform scenes from Shakespeare's plays, shot in the place hovering in his imagination when he wrote them.

The site shares: "Imagine Cleopatra in front of the Pyramids, Shylock in Venice's Jewish ghetto, Hamlet on the rocks of Elsinore... The Complete Walk will be an interactive journey through Shakespeare's life and work exactly 400 years on from his death."

"Shakespeare spent half his life in London, wrote all his plays there, and presented them all beside the Thames," The Globe's artistic director, Dominic Dromgoole, said in a statement. "We think it is suitable and fitting that the huge range of his work should be celebrated 400 years after his death in a big free public event, utilising the very latest technology, along a public walkway beside the same dirty old river, so rich with history."

The Complete Walk will form the centrepiece of London's celebration of Shakespeare's life and work. The company will release full details of the event as well as a route map for The Complete Walk in the near future.

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Source & Image: shakespearesglobe.com