RESEARCH EVENTS

Lend your voice to a variety of enlightening and insightful events as our world-leading Research programme builds on more than 25 years 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. Plus, discover new voices, events, and ideas with our fourth Shakespeare and Race Festival, which for 2024 explores the question of Who Owns Shakespeare? 

RESEARCH IN ACTION

STUDY DAYS

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Shakespeare's Knotty Comedies: Study Day

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Join academics and artists for an insightful, day-long exploration of some of Shakespeare's thorniest comedies. Including Q&A with members of our All’s Well That Ends Well Company.
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Shakespeare's Fairy Tale Worlds: Study Day

Bankside
An insightful, day-long exploration with academics and artists of Shakespeare's world of magic, prophecy, storms and shipwrecks. Including Q&A with members of our Cymbeline Company.
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SHAKESPEARE AND RACE FESTIVAL

The Shakespeare and Race Festival returns for its fourth year, jam-packed with talks, events and more from 21 October. 

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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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A foliage arrangement is overlaid with white text that reads 'Shakespeare's Fairy Tale Worlds Study Day'

Shakespeare's Fairy Tale Worlds: Study Day

Bankside
An insightful, day-long exploration with academics and artists of Shakespeare's world of magic, prophecy, storms and shipwrecks. Including Q&A with members of our Cymbeline Company.
Research Events
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