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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.

Cast/Performers

Nadia Albina, Anna Andresen, Christina Bloom, Jackie Clune, Saffron Coomber, Lauren Drennan, Eva Fontaine, Cora Kirk, Adelle Leonce, Jenni Maitland, Clare Perkins, Carolyn Pickles, Sarah Seggari, Sophie Stone, Samantha Sutherland, Rosanna Ter-Berg, Charity Wakefield, Amanda Wilkin, Tanika Yearwood

Creatives/Company

Author: Morgan Lloyd Malcolm
Producer(s): Eleanor Lloyd Productions, Kate Pakenham Produtions, Nica Burns, Eilene Davidson (in association with Access Entertainment and Kim De Morgan)
Presented by: Shakespeare's Globe
Director(s): Nicole Charles, Rachel Bown-Williams (fight), Ruthe Cooper-Brown (of RC-Annie Ltd - fight), Karishma Balani (casting director)
Design: Joanna Scotcher
Lighting: Zoe Spurr
Sound: Emma Laxton
Choreographer: Anna Morrissey
Music: Luisa Gerstein
Musical Director: Ysani Perinpanayagam