Emilia took our wooden ‘O’ by storm in late 2018, celebrating women’s voices the world over through the story of a trailblazing, forgotten woman, Emilia Bassano. 400 years ago, Emilia wanted her voice to be heard. In 1611 she penned the words to her ‘Vertuous Reader’ as part of a volume of radical, feminist and subversive poetry. Yet the little we know now of Emilia is restricted to the possibility that she may have been the ‘Dark Lady’ of Shakespeare’s Sonnets – and the rest of her story has been erased by history. Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s acclaimed play revealed the life of Emilia: writer, wife, lover, mother, muse.
Emilia took our wooden ‘O’ by storm in late 2018, celebrating women’s voices the world over through the story of a trailblazing, forgotten woman, Emilia Bassano. 400 years ago, Emilia wanted her voice to be heard. In 1611 she penned the words to her ‘Vertuous Reader’ as part of a volume of radical, feminist and subversive poetry. Yet the little we know now of Emilia is restricted to the possibility that she may have been the ‘Dark Lady’ of Shakespeare’s Sonnets – and the rest of her story has been erased by history. Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s acclaimed play revealed the life of Emilia: writer, wife, lover, mother, muse.
Top Cast
Saffron Coomber
Character: Emilia 1
Adelle Leonce
Character: Emilia 2
Clare Perkins
Character: Emilia 3
Charity Wakefield
Character: William Shakespeare/Drunk Man 2/Valentine Simmes/River Woman
Nadia Albina
Character: Lady Katherine Howard/Desdemona/River Woman
Jackie Clune
Character: Lord Thomas Howard/Hester/Lady Helena
Carolyn Pickles
Character: Lord Henry Carey/Judith/Priest
Jenni Maitland
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Anna Andresen
Character: Lady Mary Sidney/Margaret Johnson/Eve
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