Emilia
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.
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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.
Cast
Nicole Charles
Director
Saffron Coomber
Emilia 1
Adelle Leonce
Emilia 2
Clare Perkins
Emilia 3
Charity Wakefield
William Shakespeare/Drunk Man 2/Valentine Simmes/River Woman
Nadia Albina
Lady Katherine Howard/Desdemona/River Woman
Jackie Clune
Lord Thomas Howard/Hester/Lady Helena
Carolyn Pickles
Lord Henry Carey/Judith/Priest
Jenni Maitland
Countess of Kent/Mary/Man at the Globe 1
Anna Andresen
Lady Mary Sidney/Margaret Johnson/Eve
Sarah Seggari
Lady Cordelia/Flora
Sophie Stone
Lady Margaret Clifford/Midwife/Drunk Man 1/Priest 2/River Woman
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