This summer, Shakespeare’s Globe presents a diverse season of performances featuring world-class artists, alongside lesser-known classics and much-loved plays from the canon. Productions will take place across the Globe’s two iconic venues, offering audiences the opportunity to experience theatre in one of the world’s most renowned cultural settings.
To ensure performances remain accessible, more than 180,000 tickets will be available for £10 or less throughout the season, with hundreds priced at £5 for every performance.
- Emily Lim directs A Midsummer Night’s Dream, running from 23 April until 29 August.
- Michelle Terry plays Mother Courage in Anna Jordan’s translation of Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht, directed by Globe Associate Artist Elle While, running from 7 May until 27 June.
- Chelsea Walker returns to direct Much Ado About Nothing, running from 11 June until 24 October.
- Globe Associate Artist Indiana Lown-Collins makes her Globe directorial debut with Love’s Labour’s Lost, running from 17 July until 13 September.
- Associate Artistic Director Sean Holmes and Globe Associate Artist Charlie Josephine co-direct As You Like It, running from 14 August until 25 October with Charlie Josephine as Orlando and Lola Shalam as Rosalind.
- Globe Director of Education Lucy Cuthbertson directs A World Elsewhere by Kerry Frampton and Ben Hales, co-produced with Splendid Productions, which runs from 25 July until 30 August at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.
Michelle Terry, Artistic Director said, “All the plays this season were born out of a world in chaos, whether that was the chaos of Shakespeare’s 1599 or Brecht’s 1939. The questions these plays ask are attempts to make sense of that world: what is love? What is evil? What is power? What is tyranny? What is this life? Neither Shakespeare nor Brecht gives us an answer, but they do demand that we ask the questions, and, as importantly, ask them in a Theatre, where, at the very least, we are asking them together. Our beautiful wooden ‘O’ stands proudly on the banks of the Thames, connecting 1,600 people at every performance. This human connection is profound: profoundly exciting, profoundly real, and in a world of increasing division, profoundly necessary.”
To book tickets, tours and experiences for the summer season, visit shakespearesglobe.com.
