Emilia (2021)
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.
Director: Nicole Charles
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Saffron Coomber as Emilia 1 |
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Adelle Leonce as Emilia 2 |
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Clare Perkins as Emilia 3 |
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Charity Wakefield as William Shakespeare/Drunk Man 2/Valentine Simmes/River Woman |
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Nadia Albina as Lady Katherine Howard/Desdemona/River Woman |
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Jackie Clune as Lord Thomas Howard/Hester/Lady Helena |
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Carolyn Pickles as Lord Henry Carey/Judith/Priest |
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Jenni Maitland as Countess of Kent/Mary/Man at the Globe 1 |
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Anna Andresen as Lady Mary Sidney/Margaret Johnson/Eve |
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Sarah Seggari as Lady Cordelia/Flora |
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Sophie Stone as Lady Margaret Clifford/Midwife/Drunk Man 1/Priest 2/River Woman |
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Amanda Wilkin as Alphonso Lanier/River Woman/Emilia in Othello |
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Tankika Yearwood as Lady Anne Clifford/Lord Collins/Man at the Globe 2/River Woman |
| Directing | Nicole Charles | Director |
| Writing | Morgan Lloyd Malcolm | Author |
