Shakespeare’s Globe announce the Summer Season, running from April – October 2024.
Associate Artistic Director Sean Holmes directs Much Ado About Nothing, Ekow Quartey and Amalia Vitale star as Benedick and Beatrice, opening the season on 25 April.
Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe Michelle Terry plays the title role in Richard III, directed by Elle While, running from 9 May.
Jude Christian makes her Globe Theatre directorial debut with The Taming of the Shrew, running from 6 June.
Blanche McIntyre returns to direct Antony and Cleopatra, starring Nadia Nadarajah as Cleopatra, running from 4 August.
Sean Holmes’ 2023 hit The Comedy of Errors will return to the Globe from 21 August, before going on tour.
Robin Belfield directs new play Princess Essex, written by and starring Anne Odeke, running from 13 September.
New family show Rough Magic from the Olivier-nominated team behind Midsummer Mechanicals runs in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse from 20 July.
Flagship project for secondary schools, Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank Romeo & Juliet returns, directed by Globe Director of Education Lucy Cuthbertson, running from 19 March.
Globe and World Health Organisation team up, and book launch to be held at Globe for ‘Decolonising the Theatre Space: A Conversation’ featuring over 20 interviews with pioneering Black cultural leaders.
Michelle Terry, Artistic Director, says: “As a society, we’re only as free and healthy as the stories we tell about ourselves: “to hold as ‘twere the mirror up to nature”. The best stories provide an opportunity for us to engage with the biggest issues, ideas, thoughts, and feelings. Why do some stories inspire us to action and endure, and why do some hold little weight with us at all? Where, as human beings, are we afforded a safe space for exploration, experimentation, reflection, and conversation. A space to at least question the issues, ideas, thoughts, and feelings that have the power to change our lives for good or for bad?
“Theatres should be that space. With Shakespeare and the Globe, we hope to provide an opportunity for all people to engage and participate in stories, told carefully, kindly, boldly, and bravely, with rigour, heart, and beautiful imperfection infused with a life affirming desire to question what it means to be human and hopefully inspire us all to engage in the conversation.”
