Londons Globe theatre on Tuesday said will host all of Shakespeares 37 plays performed in 37 languages by 37 companies in a stage festival with acting troupes from Afghanistan and newly independent South Sudan. Globe to Globe will run for six weeks, starting from its launch on April 23 next year. It is part of the London 2012 Festival, itself the climax of the Cultural Olympiad, a four-year celebration of arts and culture in Britain leading up to the summer Olympics in the capital city next year. Globe to Globe kicks off with an adaptation of Shakespeares poem Venus and Adonis performed in Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, Tswana, Afrikaans and South African English. The plays proper get underway on April 23 with Troilus and Cressida staged in Maori and featuring the traditional haka dance. The Merry Wives of Windsor is performed in Swahili, Richard III in Mandarin, Richard II in Palestinian Arabic and Othello in hip-hop. The three Henry VI plays about Englands civil war are presented as an epic and sweeping Balkan trilogy, organisers said on Tuesday, featuring national theatres from Serbia, Albania and Macedonia. From Afghanistan, and leaving Kabul for the first time, is theatre company Roy-e-Sabs with The Comedy of Errors, while a specially-formed troupe from the worlds newest country South Sudan will perform Cymbeline. BI