Sitting In The Cheap Seats

Shakespeare’s Globe is delighted to announce the summer season 2020 will include Shakespeare’s  Romeo & Juliet ,  Much Ado About Nothing ,  Twelfth Night ,  Antony & Cleopatra , a two-day event ‘ Globe 4 Globe: Shakespeare and Climate Emergency’ , a symposium  ‘Shakespeare and Race’ , a Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank production of  Macbeth  with 20,000 free tickets to school children, the return of  family festival ‘Telling Tales’ , and a new dramatisation of  Ovid’s  Metamorphoses  by our resident writers .

Last weekend’s TyrrellsPremier 15s gave us a tightly contested and incredibly interesting gamebetween Worcester and Richmond Women .While the Warriors would leave with the win there were a lot of reasons to bepositive for the London side so we caught up with one of their most excitingyoung talents, Sadia Kabeya to gaugethe mood at the Athletic Ground Richmond walked away with a losing bonus point from their bruisingencounter at Sixways, but Kabeya is adamant from the off that it wasn’t all negativefor Richmond. “We took a lot of positives away from the game. That’s one of thebest performances we’ve had so far. I’ve especially shown a lot of improvement.Obviously there are a lot of things we need to work on. This week in trainingwe’ve really focused on our defence. It was a tight, challenging game for usbut I feel it was a turning point. Previously Worcester were the only team we’dbeaten so to lose against them has been a bit of a shock and it’s brought ustogether this week in training...

Shakespeare’s Globe is delighted to announce full casting for the next two productions opening in the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in February:  The Taming of the Shrew , directed by  Maria Gaitanidi , and Thomas Middleton’s  Women Beware Women , directed by  Amy Hodge .