The stage at Shakespeare's Globe trembled under a performance unlike any it will have experienced before this morning, when a Maori haka launched the Globe To Globe Festival

A war cry or challenge, the Maori tradition, most often associated with the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team, was performed by New Zealand's Ngãkau Toa theatre company, which performs Troilus And Cressida tonight and tomorrow, opening the season of shows that will see all 37 of Shakespeare's plays performed by 37 international companies in 37 different languages.