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Emilia

"For every Eve"

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

    Saffron Coomber

    Emilia 1

  • Adelle Leonce

    Adelle Leonce

    Emilia 2

  • Clare Perkins

    Clare Perkins

    Emilia 3

  • Charity Wakefield

    Charity Wakefield

    William Shakespeare/Drunk Man 2/Valentine Simmes/River Woman

  • Nadia Albina

    Nadia Albina

    Lady Katherine Howard/Desdemona/River Woman

  • Jackie Clune

    Jackie Clune

    Lord Thomas Howard/Hester/Lady Helena

  • Carolyn Pickles

    Carolyn Pickles

    Lord Henry Carey/Judith/Priest

  • Jenni Maitland

    Jenni Maitland

    Countess of Kent/Mary/Man at the Globe 1

  • Anna Andresen

    Anna Andresen

    Lady Mary Sidney/Margaret Johnson/Eve

Overview

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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