Shakespeare’s Globe has announced a series of new events running alongside the season of Shakespeare plays in the indoor candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.
From 6-12 December, the Globe will host Women and Power, a festival of panel events, workshops, and a scholarly symposium.
The festival features panel discussion with Maxine Peake, Globe Artistic Director Michelle Terry and Co-Director of Education Professor Farah Karim-Cooper, dubbed ‘Hamlet and She’ for a feminist discussion on the role of Hamlet on 6 December. Peake was the first female Hamlet on a major stage in over three decades whilst Terry was the first woman to play Hamlet on the Globe stage.
Meanwhile comedy feminist podcast, The Guilty Feminist, returns to the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse for a live recording with host Deborah Frances-White, with special guests will be announced in due course.
The festival will also feature an online symposium titled ‘Empowerment to Disempowerment: Intersectional Voices’, this one-day event on 10 December will gather experts, activists and theatre practitioners in an exploration of intersectionality, women, and power.
Co-Director of Education, Professor Farah Karim-Cooper, said: “Our second Women and Power festival uses Shakespeare's works to ask questions about our moment and its resonances with the past. Issues that women face today - inequality, sexual harassment, diminished access to power - will be discussed through the lens of Shakespeare, performance and social justice.”
Also announced as part of the Winter Season are a series of educational events including Free Youth Theatre Taster Sessions, the Telling Tales family festival and Anti-Racist Shakespeare: Perspectives on the Plays, which will enable live discussion online of Measure for Measure (9 December), Hamlet (10 February) and The Merchant of Venice (15 March).
The theatre will also host two live performances by Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane who will present the first live performance of their new album, Lost in the Cedar Wood, in an evening created specifically for Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Created in lockdown 2020, the album bases itself loosely upon the world's oldest written work of literature, The Epic of Gilgamesh. Flynn, most recently worked at the Globe creating music for 2015’s As You Like It and was on stage in 2012’s Twelfth Night and Richard III.
See the full details of the Winter Season below:
SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE WINTER SEASON EVENTS
Women and Power Festival
Hamlet and She - 6 December
In Conversation, Measure for Measure - 7 December
Online Symposium ‘Empowerment to Disempowerment: Intersectional Voices’ - 10 December, 10am
The Guilty Feminist - 12 December
Lost in the Cedar Wood: Johnny Flynn & Robert Macfarlane
Sunday 6 February 18.30 & Monday 7 February 19.30
Telling Tales: February Half-Term
13-19 February
Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank: Macbeth
March - 16 April 2022
Anti-Racist Shakespeare
Measure for Measure - 9 December, 6pm
Hamlet - 10 February, 6pm
The Merchant of Venice - 15 March, 6pm
Shakespeare and Race: Storytelling, The Merchant of Venice
6 & 13 March, 11am & 2pm
Continuing Professional Development
Shakespeare and Women - 29 January & 12 March, 3-6pm
Teaching Anti-Racist Shakespeare Othello and The Merchant of Venice - 15 January, 3-5pm
Teaching Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth - 15 February,11am-2pm
Teaching Anti-Racist Shakespeare: Othello and The Tempest - 2 March, 6-8pm
Youth Theatre
Youth Theatre Taster Sessions - 20 & 27 November
Youth Theatre - January-July 2022
Young Actors
Short Course 8-10 years or 11-13 years - 4-8 April
Rutgers Conservatory
Twelfth Night - 17 & 18 December, 6.30pm
The Tragedy of Antony & Cleopatra - 18 & 19 February, 6.30pm
SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE WINTER SEASON PRODUCTIONS
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
Friday 19 November - Saturday 15 January
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Livestream - Friday 07 January
Press Night - Thursday 02 December
#MeasureForMeasure
The Fir Tree by Hannah Khalil
Monday 20 December - Thursday 30 December
Globe Theatre
#TheFirTree
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Friday 21 January - Saturday 09 April
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Livestream - Friday 11 February
Press Night - Thursday 03 February
#Hamlet
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Friday 18 February - Saturday 09 April
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Livestream - Friday 25 March
Press Night - Wednesday 02 March
#TheMerchantOfVenice
