Shakespeare at London theatres

A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Shakespeare - comedy

Four love-drunk teens, escaped from the confines of an oppressive regime, caught in a dispute of increasingly magical proportions. A posse of wannabe actors, determined to put on a play against the odds.

As You Like it

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Shakespeare - comedy

A tale of sibling rivalry, exile, cross-dressing, and misplaced love, it takes travelling to the Forest of Arden for friendships to be formed, and families and lovers to be reunited.

The Tempest

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Shakespeare - comedy

Set on a remote and mysterious desert island, a banished father must relinquish control and release his daughter in order for her, and for him, to grow, love and understand this brave new world.

Hamlet

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Shakespeare - tragedy

Recent RADA graduate J. Carlos Lacey takes the lead in this version of the Shakespeare classic.

Romeo & Juliet

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Shakespeare - tragedy

Kimberley Sykes directs Shakespeare's timeless story of two young people torn apart by a divided society and forbidden love.

Romeo and Juliet

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Shakespeare - tragedy

Romeo and Juliet fall in love. Romeo and Juliet die. It's not a spoiler. It's written in the stars. Final. Finite. But what if it isn't?

Sh!t-faced Shakespeare: Macbeth

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Shakespeare

Upon hearing the weird sisters' prediction, Macbeth and his wily wife take matters into their own hands and burn down everything in their wake. Well, almost. Fair is foul and foul is fair in this tale of prophecy gone slightly off the rails.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Shakespeare - comedy

A riotous and magical outdoor production of Shakespeare's most famous comedy, with a lots of opportunities for the community to get involved. Family Friendly!

Love's Labour's Lost

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Shakespeare - comedy

Four actors will play all seventeen characters in this mischievous, and rather pertinent, love story.

Audience Choice

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Shakespeare

In this uniquely Globe experience, the audience get to decide which play is performed. Could it be A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest or As You Like It?

As You Like It

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Shakespeare - comedy

Run away with Rosalind and Celia as the Forest of Arden quite literally lands in your local pub garden this summer.

Twelfth Night

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Shakespeare - comedy

Illyria is a society in limbo, held captive by loss. Until a sea-drenched stranger arrives and unexpectedly unleashes the chaotic and transformative power of love.

The Tempest

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Shakespeare - romance

The stranger and his daughter live alone on a remote island. Some people say he's an artist. Others say he practises magic. But today is different. Prospero spots his oldest enemies passing close by in a fragile boat.

The Tragedy of Macbeth

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Shakespeare - tragedy

Yaël Farber directs James McArdle and Saoirse Ronan, in an elemental production about a world in transformation, the shadows in all of us, and one couple's spine-chilling quest for power.

Hamlet

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Shakespeare - tragedy

Cush Jumbo (The Good Wife, The Good Fight) makes her Young Vic debut as a new kind of Hamlet for this generation.