Shakespeare’s Globe announces the cast of this year’s Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank production, Romeo and Juliet. This gripping 90-minute production set in the present day is created especially for young people and designed to support the curriculum. The production will be directed by Director of Education, Lucy Cuthbertson, Director of Olivier award-nominated Midsummer Mechanicals (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, 2022).
The cast includes Gethin Alderman, Sharon Ballard, Ashley Byam, Simeon Desvignes, Marième Diouf, Miriam Grace Edwards, Felixe Forde, Owen Gawthorpe, Liam King, Hayden Mampasi and Saroja-Lily Ratnavel.
Public performances from 19 March until 13 April run alongside the previously announced schools’ project, supported by Deutsche Bank, as part of their global youth engagement programme ‘Born to Be’. There are over 26,000 free tickets for pupils aged 11-16 at London and Birmingham state schools, with subsidised tickets for schools nationwide and a range of accessible performances including Integrated BSL.
Alongside the production, workshops on Romeo and Juliet will run throughout the Easter Holidays, including practical drama activities and games for young people to attend alone or with their families.
Director Lucy Cuthbertson says: “It’s a privilege to be directing this production of Romeo and Juliet at Shakespeare’s Globe. For 18 years, our flagship education project has been enabling hundreds of thousands of students to experience theatre for free, made possible by the support from Deutsche Bank’s Born to Be programme. There is no place like the Globe to see Shakespeare. We hope this contemporary vision for one of the world’s most famous stories will resonate with our young audiences and indeed anyone coming to Shakespeare for the first time.”
