Shakespeare’s Globe announces the Summer Season, running from April – October 2023. Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe Michelle Terry stars as Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Elle While, opening the season on 27 April.
Associate Artistic Director Sean Holmes directs The Comedy of Errors, running from 12 May and Abigail Graham returns to Shakespeare’s Globe to direct Macbeth, running from 21 July.
Ellen McDougall returns to direct As You Like It, running from 18 August and family-show Midsummer Mechanicals returns to the Playhouse from 22 July.
A flagship project for secondary schools, Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank, returns with The Tempest, directed by Diane Page and Burnt at the Stake, or The Whole Truth, a special night of new writing runs in the Globe Theatre on 13 October.
Michelle Terry, Artistic Director, says: “2023 is the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio. Without this collection, 18 of Shakespeare’s plays would have been lost forever including four well known and beloved plays: The Tempest, Comedy of Errors, As You Like It and Macbeth. At a time when we all stand to lose and gain so much, at a time in which we all face huge questions about who, what, and why we are, theatre remains one of the greatest and safest ways for a society to debate with itself and ask these questions.
This summer, with those four folio plays, along with A Midsummer Night’s Dream, we hope to surprise, challenge, excite, illuminate, provoke, and delight, as we continue to put Shakespeare to work for now and for our future on this incredible Globe. In our theatre, our Wooden ‘O’, made from a 1000 oak trees, the Thames outstretched beside it, the sky above, and the earth below, in which nature, human nature and our in-human nature congregate, converse, commune and connect; what better place to experience these extraordinary plays, in this extraordinary playhouse, at this most extraordinary of times.”
