Emma Rice's Inaugural Season at Shakespeare's Globe will Include IMOGEN, MACBETH & More

Shakespeare's Globe's new artistic director Emma Rice has just announced the line-up for the historic theatre's new season. Called the "Wonder Season," all of the productions will include elements of folklore and magic. Emma will open her season by directing A Midsummer Night's Dream. Following this, audiences can expect powerful stagings of The Taming of the Shrew and Macbeth as well as Imogen, a reframed production of Cymbeline; UK-wide tours of The Merchant of Venice and The Two Gentlemen of Verona; and Kneehigh's family-friendly 946 - The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips and the magical The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk.

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Emma Rice is currently the Joint Artistic Director of Kneehigh. For Kneehigh she has adapted and directed The Red Shoes(TMA Theatre Award for Best Director), The Wooden Frock, The Bacchae (2005 TMA Theatre Award for Best Touring Production), Tristan & Yseult (currently touring the US), Cymbeline (in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company), A Matter of Life and Death (Royal National Theatre production in association with Kneehigh), Rapunzel (in association with Battersea Arts Centre), Brief Encounter (tour, West End and Studio 54, Broadway, a David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers Production in association with Kneehigh), Don John (in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Bristol Old Vic),Midnight's Pumpkin, The Wild Bride and Steptoe and Son. Other work includes The Empress by Tanika Gupta for the RSC, the West End production of Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Oedipussy for Spymonkey, Wah! Wah! Girls for World Stages (Sadler's Wells, Theatre Royal Stratford East and Kneehigh), An Audience with Meow Meow (Berkeley Rep, California) and Rebecca (a David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers Production in association with Kneehigh), which is currently touring nationally.

Founded by the pioneering American actor and director Sam Wanamaker, Shakespeare's Globe is a unique international resource dedicated to the exploration of Shakespeare's work and the playhouse for which he wrote, through the connected means of performance and education. Together, the Globe Theatre, Globe Exhibition & Tour and Globe Education seek to further the experience and international understanding of Shakespeare in performance. For more information, visit: http://www.shakespearesglobe.com/