Actor/Designer Ellie Piercy created unique hand-made uniforms for our volunteer stewards and each one contains a unique piece of Globe history. Earlier this year Shakespeare’s Globe underwent an award-winning rebrand. Drawing on the very building itself, at the heart of the design lies a deceptively simple red circle. In fact…

Performing Shakespeare in British Sign Language — T o celebrate International Week of the Deaf (24–30 September 2018) we have been working with Deaf audiences and theatre-makers to make Shakespeare more accessible to everyone. The Shakespeare Synopsis project aims to create a filmed synopsis for every one of Shakespeare’s plays. We are committed to improving accessibility for…

Leaphia Darko is playing Katherine in our current production of Love’s Labour’s Lost. Here she recounts ‘the worst day’ of her life in which the Globe plays a pivotal role and has the magical effect of turning around her day and her life. I don’t really know much about how…

Professor Ania Loomba is the Catherine Bryson Professor of English at Penn Arts & Sciences, University of Pennsylvania. Here she gives a personal insight into Shakespeare and race. When I arrived in Britain in the winter of 1983, I began to inhabit a body that was marked as visibly different…

Deborah Frances-White is the host of podcast The Guilty Feminist, and she’s a fan of Emilia Lanier, Britain’s first female published poet. Emilia Lanier is my favourite historical guilty feminist and Elizabethan girl-crush. She was a poet, a class warrior and a champion of women — but she knew how…

As the Globe Ensemble’s Hamlet and As You Like It continue to delight audiences on stage, Nadia Nadarajah and Michelle Terry found time to speak to each other about Nadia’s role in the Ensemble and experiences so far. Michelle: Can you tell me how it’s been for you as the…

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Refugee Week. Shakespeare’s ‘Strangers’ Speech’, from The Book of Sir Thomas More, is as relevant today as it was in the Elizabethan era. ‘..the right to travel, is not a privilege to be conferred on the few as an act of grace,… it…

Dr Will Tosh explores the complicated nature of friendship in The Two Noble Kinsmen. We recently said goodbye to The Two Noble Kinsmen company, and the foot-stompingly fabulous world of the play: part ancient Greece, part chivalric fantasy-land, and part May Day riot. The story was as rich as the…

Like the film and theatre world, the creative design world also goes into awards mode around this time of year. The D&AD Awards, with its iconic pencil trophies, are perhaps the most prestigious. Like the film and theatre world, the creative design world also goes into awards mode around this…