Shakespeare’s Globe announces 2016 Wonder Season

Emma Rice, Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe, announces her inaugural season titled The 2016 Wonder Season.

The season will be heralded by a magical forest designed by Lez Brotherston, which will spill from the piazza onto London’s Bankside, welcoming everyone to the season of Wonder. Highlights include:

A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Emma Rice – a riotous celebration, complete with music, dance and naughtiness
Caroline Byrne’s production of The Taming of the Shrew
Macbeth directed by Iqbal Khan
a co-adaptation by Michael Morpurgo and Emma Rice of 946 The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips
Imogen, Shakespeare’s Cymbeline renamed and reclaimed, directed Matthew Dunster
Jonathan Munby’s The Merchant of Venice, starring Jonathan Pryce
a touring production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona and John Wolfson’s play The Inn at Lydda at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

FULL LISTINGS

2016 Summer Season: 30 April 2016 – 16 October 2016

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
30 April 2016 – 11 September 2016

The Taming of the Shrew
13 May 2016 – 6 August 2016

The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk (presented by Kneehigh and Bristol Old Vic)
16 June 2016 – 2 July 2016

Macbeth
18 June 2016 – 1 October 2016

946 The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips (Kneehigh in association with Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Berkeley Repertory Theatre)
11 August 2016 – 11 September 2016

Imogen
17 September 2016 – 16 October 2016

Two Gentlemen of Verona (Presented by Shakespeare’s Globe and Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse)
20 September 2016 – 1 October 2016: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

The Merchant of Venice
4 October 2016- 15 October2016 : Globe Theatre

The Inn at Lydda
September 2016 (dates TBC): Sam Wanamaker Playhouse