Shakespeare’s Globe theatre. Photo: _gee_/flickr CC
Eye - 01 April 2011
From the Globe to the Gallery to the garden
Bible marathon
According to the Globe theatre, a full reading of the King James I Bible will take about sixty-nine hours in total. Between Palm Sunday and Easter Monday, a group of twenty actors will read all 788,280 words in eight instalments, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the translation. Eye is fascinated by the project but feels that the feat is a little undermined by it not being done as one continuous reading.
In Lincoln a team from St George’s church will attempt to break the world record by completing a full reading in under seventy hours. Interestingly, representatives from Lincoln’s Jewish community will begin by reading the creation story from Genesis in the original Hebrew.
