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Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare
A Royal Shakespeare Company production

28 May - 7 July 2012 (Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon), 19 - 28 July 2012 (Newcastle Theatre Royal, Newcastle/Gateshead), 8 August - 15 September 2012 (Noël Coward Theatre, London)

A New Sonnet by Mark Ravenhill

Playwright and RSC Writer in Residence Mark Ravenhill recites his new sonnet, commissioned by the RSC to celebrate the offical opening of the World Shakespeare Festival and Shakespeare's 448th birthday.

What Country Friends Is This?

Shakespeare's shipwreck trilogy; The Tempest, Twelfth Night and The Comedy of Errors
From 8 March
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon and The Roundhouse, London
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Macbeth: Leïla and Ben – A Bloody History

by William Shakespeare
adapted by Lotfi Achour and Anissa Daoud
An Artistes, Producteurs, Associés production

4 - 7 July 2012 (Riverside Studios, London), 12 - 14 July 2012 (Northern Stage, Newcastle/Gateshead)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (As You Like It)

A Chekhov International Theatre Festival/Dmitry Krymov's Laboratory/School of Dramatic Art Theatre production

10 - 18 August 2012 (Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon), 24 - 26 August 2012 (King's Theatre, Edinburgh International Festival)

The Rest is Silence

A meditation on Hamlet by William Shakespeare
A dreamthinkspeak production

5 May - 8 June 2012 (Brighton Festival), 12 - 23 June 2012 (Riverside Studios, London), 26 - 30 June 2012 (Northern Stage, Newcastle/Gateshead)

Two Roses for Richard III

A Companhia Bufomecânica production in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company

18 - 23 May (Roundhouse, London)

Romeo and Juliet in Baghdad

adapted by Monadhil Daood
An Iraqi Theatre Company production

28 - 30 June (LIFT at Riverside Studios, London)

Worlds Together

A major international conference exploring the place of Shakespeare and the arts in young people's lives across the world.

6 – 8 September 2012 (Stratford-upon-Avon and Tate Modern)

A Soldier in Every Son – The Rise of the Aztecs

by Luis Mario Moncada
A Compañía Nacional de Teatro de México/Royal Shakespeare Company co-production

29 June - 28 July 2012 (Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon)

Timon of Athens

by William Shakespeare
A National Theatre production

From July 2012 (National Theatre, London - exact dates to be confirmed)

Troilus and Cressida

by William Shakespeare
The Wooster Group/Royal Shakespeare Company co-production

3 - 18 August 2012 (Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon)

Twelfth Night

by William Shakespeare
A Royal Shakespeare Company production

8 March - 15 May 2012 & 12 July - 6 October 2012 (Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon), 5 June - 5 July (Roundhouse, London)

Shakespeare: staging the world

Shakespeare: staging the world - The BP Exhibition
19 July - 25 November 2012

A major exhibition taking place at the British Museum as part of the Festival
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West Side Story

Book by Arthur Laurents
Music by Leonard Bernstein
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
A Sage Gateshead production in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company's Open Stages

4 - 7 July 2012 (The Sage Gateshead, Newcastle/Gateshead)

The Comedy Of Errors

by William Shakespeare
A Royal Shakespeare Company production

14 March - 14 May 2012 and 16 July - 6 October 2012 (Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon), 1 June - 4 July (Roundhouse, London)

Coriolan/US

by William Shakespeare
A National Theatre Wales production in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company

August 2012 - exact dates to be announced (Dragon Film Studios, Bridgend)

Cymbeline

by William Shakespeare
A Ninagawa Company production

29 May - 2 June 2012 (Barbican Theatre, London)

Forests

Inspired by the work of William Shakespeare
A Birmingham Repertory Theatre Company and Barcelona Internacional Teatre production in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company

31 August - 15 September 2012 (Old Rep Theatre, Birmingham)