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.
as Emilia 1
as Emilia 2
as Emilia 3
as William Shakespeare/Drunk Man 2/Valentine Simmes/River Woman
as Lady Katherine Howard/Desdemona/River Woman
as Lord Thomas Howard/Hester/Lady Helena
as Lord Henry Carey/Judith/Priest
as Countess of Kent/Mary/Man at the Globe 1
as Lady Mary Sidney/Margaret Johnson/Eve
as Lady Cordelia/Flora
as Lady Margaret Clifford/Midwife/Drunk Man 1/Priest 2/River Woman
as Alphonso Lanier/River Woman/Emilia in Othello
as Lady Anne Clifford/Lord Collins/Man at the Globe 2/River Woman
