Emilia

Release Date: 2021-03-01

Overview: 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.

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Cast

Saffron Coomber

as Emilia 1

Adelle Leonce

as Emilia 2

Clare Perkins

as Emilia 3

Charity Wakefield

as William Shakespeare/Drunk Man 2/Valentine Simmes/River Woman

Nadia Albina

as Lady Katherine Howard/Desdemona/River Woman