It will include productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children.
This summer the Shakespeare’s Globe will invite audiences to enjoy a range of theatre including lesser-known classics, and much-loved plays brought to life by world-class artists.
It has been announced that Emily Lin will direct A Midsummer Night’s Dream from the 23rd April until the 29th August. Casting and further details of the production have yet to be announced.
Meanwhile, Michelle Terry will play Mother Courage in Anna Jordan’s translation of Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht, directed by Globe Associate Artist Elle While. It will run from the 7th May until the 27th June.
It has also been announced that Chelsea Walker returns to The Globe to direct a new production of Much Ado About Nothing, which will take to the stage from the 11th June until the 24th October.
Globe Associate Artist Indiana Lown-Collins makes her Globe directorial debut with Love’s Labour’s Lost, running from 17th July until 13th September.
Associate Artistic Director Sean Holmes and Globe Associate Artist Charlie Josephine are set to co-direct As You Like it, which will play from the 14th August until 25th October. It will star Charlie Josephine as Orlando and Lola Shalam as Rosalind.
Globe Director of Education Lucy Cuthbertson directs A World Elsewhere by Kerry Frampton and Ben Hales, co-produced with Splendid Productions, running from 25th July until 30th August in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.
Talking about the news, Michelle Terry, Artistic Director, says: “All the plays this season were born out of a world in chaos whether that was the chaos of Shakespeare’s 1599 or Brecht’s 1939. The questions these plays ask are an attempt to make sense of
that world: what is love? What is evil? What is power? What is tyranny? What is this life Neither Shakespeare nor Brecht give us an answer, but they do demand we ask the questions, and as importantly, ask them in a Theatre, where at the very least we are asking them together. Our beautiful wooden ‘O’ stands proudly on the banks of the Thames, connecting 1,600 people at every performance.
“This human connection is profound: profoundly exciting, profoundly real, and in a world of increasing division, profoundly necessary. If you’ve been before, come again! If you’ve never been, try it! Come and experience for yourself the visceral impact of being together, in these magical spaces with these powerful plays, the huge questions they ask, and the hope, courage and comfort that comes from trying to answer them together.”
To find out more about the productions visit: https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/