About This Show
★★★★ ‘A fire-cracker production… a hit’ – The Times
400 years ago Emilia Bassano wanted her voice to be heard. It wasn’t. Could she have been the “Dark Lady” of Shakespeare’s sonnets? What of her own poems? Why was her story erased from history?
Emilia and her sisters reach out to us across the centuries with passion, fury, laughter and song.
Listen to them. Let them inspire and unite us.
Celebrate women’s voices through the story of this trailblazing, forgotten woman.
Stand up and be counted.
Show Details
Dates:
Opening Night: 08 March 2019
Final Performance: 01 June 2019
Cast
Nadia Albina
Lady Katherine Howard/Desdemona/River Woman
Anna Andresen
Lady Mary Sidney/Margaret Johnson/Eve
Jackie Clune
Lord Thomas Howard/Hester/Lady Helena
Saffron Coomber
Emilia 1
Jenni Maitland
Countess of Kent/Mary/Man at the Globe 1
Clare Perkins
Emilia 3
Carolyn Pickles
Lord Henry Carey/Judith/Priest
Sarah Seggari
Lady Cordelia/Flora
Sophie Stone
Lady Margaret Clifford/Midwife/Drunk Man 1/Priest 2/River Woman
Charity Wakefield
William Shakespeare/Drunk Man 2/Valentine Simmes/River Woman
Amanda Wilkin
Alphonso Lanier/River Woman/Emilia in Othello
Tankika Yearwood
Lady Anne Clifford/Lord Collins/Man at the Globe 2/River Woman
Adelle Leonce
Emilia 2
Creatives
Morgan Lloyd Malcolm
Author
Eleanor Lloyd
Producer
Kate Pakenham
Producer
Nica Burns
Producer
Eilene Davidson
Producer
Nicole Charles
Director
Joanna Scotcher
Design
Joanna Scotcher
Costume
Anna Morrissey
Choreographer
Yshani Perinpanayagam
Musical Director
Luisa Gerstein
Music
Zoe Spurr
Lighting
