RESEARCH EVENTS

Lend your voice to a variety of enlightening and insightful events as our world-leading Research programme builds on a decade of unparalleled performance and exploration in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.

Delve deeper into Shakespeare’s world and works with our Research in Action series and Study Days events, explore lesser-known texts through Read Not Dead, and join vital conversations with our Anti-Racist Shakespeare webinars, with many more talks, symposia and events announced throughout the year.

RESEARCH IN ACTION

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Research in Action: Shakespeare and Consent

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
An insightful, active investigation into Shakespeare's ‘dramaturgy of consent’, asking: what happens when characters in his plays say ‘no’?
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Research in Action: Staging Mass in Early Modern Drama

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
An eye-opening exploration of how early modern playwrights navigated Reformation England’s contentious relationship with Catholicism.
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Research in Action: Marlowe in Repertory

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
A special workshop in association with the Marlowe Society of America puts the plays of Christopher Marlowe back into the middle of the bustling theatre scene he knew so well.
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Research in Action: A Game at Chess at 400

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Mark the quatercentenary of Thomas Middleton’s early modern thriller with this fascinating look at its performance history and cultural impact.
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STUDY DAYS

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Much Ado About Nothing: Study Day

Deep dive into Shakespeare’s epic tale of love, duty and power, and discover more the play's history and themes, and about our 2024 production. Includes a Q&A with members of the show's company.
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The Taming of the Shrew: Study Day

Deep dive into Shakespeare’s challenging early comedy, and discover more the play's history and themes, and our 2024 production in this interactive Study Day. Includes a Q&A with members of the show's company.
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Richard III: Study Day

Deep dive into Shakespeare’s epic tale of love, duty and power, and discover more the play's history and themes, and about our 2024 production. Includes a Q&A with members of the show's company.
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Antony & Cleopatra: Study Day

Deep dive into Shakespeare’s epic tale of love, duty and power, and discover more the play's history and themes, and about our 2024 production. Includes a Q&A with members of the show's company.
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Read Not Dead

Our acclaimed script-in-hand performance series, Read Not Dead returns, ready to examine another lesser-known early modern play through a twenty-first-century lens. This year, we turn a critical eye to Richard Brome’s satirical comedy The English Moor.

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Shakespeare's Many Queer Lives

Step into the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse as we illuminate an untold aspect of Shakespeare’s world in an enlightening panel discussion, Shakespeare’s Many Queer Lives, with Globe Head of Research Will Tosh.

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Anti-Racist Shakespeare is a series of free webinars that brings together scholars and artists of colour from a wide variety of backgrounds to examine Shakespeare’s plays through the lens of race and social justice.

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Large graphic hand against a yellow blackground with black markings. Black overlaid text reads Research In Action Shakespeare and Consent.

Research in Action: Shakespeare and Consent

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
An insightful, active investigation into Shakespeare's ‘dramaturgy of consent’, asking: what happens when characters in his plays say ‘no’?
Research Events
Book Now Discover more
Graphic black bible with blue cross in front of diagonal black lines. Black overlay text which reads Research In Action Staging Mass in Early Modern Drama.

Research in Action: Staging Mass in Early Modern Drama

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
An eye-opening exploration of how early modern playwrights navigated Reformation England’s contentious relationship with Catholicism.
Research Events
Book Now Discover more
Grungy art-style poster saying "Research in Action: Marlowe in Repertory", illustrated with a quill on a blue background.

Research in Action: Marlowe in Repertory

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
A special workshop in association with the Marlowe Society of America puts the plays of Christopher Marlowe back into the middle of the bustling theatre scene he knew so well.
Research Events
Book Now Discover more
Stylised cartoon of a castle, with writing saying "Research In Action: A Game at Chess at 400"

Research in Action: A Game at Chess at 400

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Mark the quatercentenary of Thomas Middleton’s early modern thriller with this fascinating look at its performance history and cultural impact.
Research Events
Book Now Discover more
Three candles, two lit and one recently extinguished. Overlaid with white text which reads Read Not Dead The English Moor.

Read Not Dead: The English Moor

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Our acclaimed script-in-hand series returns to turn a critical eye to Richard Brome’s challenging satirical comedy. Steven Kavuma directs with Zoë Svendsen as Dramaturg.
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Ekow Quartey sat in front of a flower wall holding a flower which has snapped. Overlaid with text reading much ado about nothing study day.

Much Ado About Nothing: Study Day

Deep dive into Shakespeare’s epic tale of love, duty and power, and discover more the play's history and themes, and about our 2024 production. Includes a Q&A with members of the show's company.
Research Events
Book Now Discover more
Close up of woman in a ruff whose face is being manipulated by blue arms protruding from a fluffy blue wall. White overlay text reads the taming of the shrew study day.

The Taming of the Shrew: Study Day

Deep dive into Shakespeare’s challenging early comedy, and discover more the play's history and themes, and our 2024 production in this interactive Study Day. Includes a Q&A with members of the show's company.
Research Events
Book Now Discover more
Nadia Nadarajah as Cleopatra against a bright red background. Overlaid text reads Antony & Cleopatra Study Day.

Antony & Cleopatra: Study Day

Deep dive into Shakespeare’s epic tale of love, duty and power, and discover more the play's history and themes, and about our 2024 production. Includes a Q&A with members of the show's company.
Research Events
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Michelle Terry as Richard III wearing a white graphic crown in front of an orange background. Overlaid with white text which reads Richard III study day.

Richard III: Study Day

Deep dive into Shakespeare’s epic tale of love, duty and power, and discover more the play's history and themes, and about our 2024 production. Includes a Q&A with members of the show's company.
Research Events
Book Now Discover more
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Shakespeare's Many Queer Lives

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
This enlightening panel discussion with Globe Head of Research Will Tosh explores the ways in which Shakespeare's plays allow us a better understanding of the queerness of his lifetime and myriad lenses through which we can explore our own identities today.
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