Shakespeare plays in London

Other theatres may be hipper, slicker, starrier and physically warmer. But Shakespeare’s Globe is the beating heart of London theatre…

Kimberley Sykes helms up the Open Air Theatre’s (almost) annual Shakespeare play, in the shape of his timeless romantic tragedy ‘Romeo & Juliet’, held over from last year. Joel MacCormack and Isabel Adomakoh Young star.

Rising star director Ola Ince makes her Shakespearean debut at the helm of the immortal romantic tragedy, with similarly upwards-bound actor Alfred Enoch in the role of Romeo and Rebekah Murrell as Juliet.

Another hangover from the Globe’s aborted 2020 season, Globe associate artistic director Sean Holmes’s take on the beloved ‘Twelfth Night’ sees him direct his boss Michelle Terry for the first time, as she takes on the role of the comedy’s shipwrecked, cross-dressing protagonist Viola. 

Delayed a year by Covid, Cush Jumbo follows in the footsteps of her ‘The Good Fight’ co-star Michael Sheen to don the mantle of the Bard’s doomed Danish prince at the Young Vic. The production will be directed by Greg Hersov.

Four-times Oscar-nominated Irish-American film star Saoirse Ronan takes on the role of Lady Macbeth in the mighty Yaël Farber’s new production of The Scottish Play. Here going out under its official name ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’, we’re promised a production that will place equal emphasis on Ronan’s Lady M and James McArdle’s Macbeth.

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