EMILIA





“A GLORIOUS BLAZE OF PASSION AND FURY… RICHLY FUNNY” (The Times).
1609. I AM EMILIA.
WRITER. WIFE. LOVER. MOTHER. MUSE.
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.
2019. WE ARE EMILIA.
Shakespeare’s Globe’s “EXTRAORDINARILY ROUSING NEW PLAY” (The Independent) which met with “WHOOPS, CHEERS, BELLY LAUGHS, A STANDING OVATION” (Time Out), now explodes at the Vaudeville theatre. An all-female cast playing both hers and hims rouses “AUDIENCES INTO A PITCH OF FERVOUR”(The Guardian) in a “MAGNIFICENT PRODUCTION” (The Stage) filled with “WIT, FIERCE INTELLIGENCE AND HEADY INTENSITY” (The Times).
★★★★A fire-cracker production… a hit’
The Times
★★★★Heartfelt and crowd pleasing’
Evening Standard
★★★★Told with verve and energy… a stirring show’
Metro
Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s play roars into the West End’
The Stage
Nadia Albina
Lady Katherine Howard/ Desdemona/ River Woman

Anna Andresen
Lady Mary Sidney/ Margaret Johnson/ Hester

Christina Bloom
Ensemble/Musician
Emilia 1

Yshani Perinpanayagam
Ensemble/Musician

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

Samantha Sutherland
Ensemble/Musician

Charity Wakefield
William Shakespeare/ Drunk/ Man 2/ Valentine Simmes/ River Woman

Amanda Wilkin
Alphonso Lanier/ River Woman/ Emilia in Othello

Tanika Yearwood
Lady Anne Clifford/ Lord Collins/ Man at the Globe 2/ River Woman
Morgan Lloyd Malcolm
Writer
Nicole Charles
Director
Joanna Scotcher
Anna Morrissey
Choreography and Movement Direction
Zoe Spurr
Lighting Designer
Sound Designer
Composer
Vaudeville Theatre
404 Strand, London, WC2R 0NH
