Shakespeare’s Globe is delighted to announce our Summer Season, running from April – October 2025.
• Associate Artistic Director Sean Holmes directs Romeo and Juliet (running 25 April – 2 August) and
The Merry Wives of Windsor (running 4 July – 20 September). Rawaed Asde and Lola Shalam star as
Romeo and Juliet, opening the season on 25 April.
• Ola Ince returns to direct The Crucible written by Arthur Miller from 8 May until 12 July.
• Robin Belfield returns to direct Twelfth Night, or What You Will from 8 August to 25 October.
• Owen Horsley makes his Globe directorial debut with Troilus and Cressida, running from 26 September
to 26 October.
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream: For One Night Only takes place on Sunday 14 September, directed by
Blanche McIntyre. A company of actors to be announced all meet for the first time on the day of
performance.
• Summer 2024 hit Rough Magic, directed by Globe Director of Education Lucy Cuthbertson, returns to the
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse from 19 July until 23 August.
• Flagship project for secondary schools, Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank Macbeth returns for
the 19th year, directed by Lucy Cuthbertson. Public performances run from 13 March until 20 April.
• Sarah Dickenson will be joining Shakespeare’s Globe as Writer-in-Residence in collaboration with Exeter
Northcott Theatre, supported by Playwright’s ’73.
• On Sunday 9 March, Shakespeare’s Globe welcomes Ramadan Tent Project to break fast in the Globe
Theatre as part of Open Iftar 2025.
• The Globe will host a collaboration with the World Health Organisation on 4 June, following the launch
of a new relationship between the two organisations last year.
Michelle Terry, Artistic Director, says: I am delighted to share our 2025 summer season.
The Globe is an independent charity, and as a charity our focus is always on our beneficiaries. At the heart of the Globe
is the relationship between our beneficiaries – our artists and our audiences. It seems too obvious to say, but they can’t
exist without each other and that is especially true in the embrace of our wooden ‘O’.
These are complicated times for cultural organisations: how can we continue to create and experiment, question, excite,
and provoke at the same time as reassure an audience that the experience they have will be deserving of their precious
time and hard-earned cash.
This season at The Globe has artists and audience in mind as we try to balance well-known and beloved plays, with
lesser known, but equally extraordinary ones.
We hope this season strikes that balance; with these timely & timeless tales told by some of the most important artists
working in British Theatre today.
We also hope this exciting season comes at a price that people can afford. A price that allows people to take a punt on
a play they may not know, in an iconic theatre they may never have visited before, in the company of people that they
know, as well as those they have never met.
Last year, I’m incredibly proud that despite the precarity of the moment, 51%, or precisely 220,351, of our tickets were
available at £30 or under, and nearly 75,000 people not only saw a play, but were part of the experience with our unique
and precious £5 Groundling ticket.
Accessible ticket pricing is crucial to us at the Globe, not only to ensure the Theatre truly is a place that is open and
available for all, but because a theatrical experience shared by thousands of people is democracy in action. Theatre is
the space for people from all walks of life, from all around the world, across every socio-political spectrum, to come
together, in peace with delicious kindness, and for a brief amount of time to imagine others’ lives, to debate others’
points of view, to empathise with others’ experiences and to be taken to worlds elsewhere before returning back to this
one.
All of us at the Globe look forward to welcoming people during the summer, come rain or shine, to experience together
the magic and importance of storytelling.
Romeo and Juliet runs from 25 April to 2 August, directed by Associate Artistic Director Sean Holmes (Much Ado
About Nothing, 2024, The Comedy of Errors, 2023-24). The Globe Theatre transforms into the dark, brooding world of
the American West, where a blood feud between two sworn enemies erupts with brutal consequences. Sean’s previous
work for the Globe includes Much Ado About Nothing (2024), The Comedy of Errors (2023 & 2024), The Winter’s Tale
(2023), The Tempest (2022), Twelfth Night (2021), Hamlet (2021) Metamorphoses (2021), Henry VI (2020), Richard III
(2020), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2019). Sean recently co-directed Cowbois with Charlie Josephine (I, Joan).
Before the Globe, Sean was the Artistic Director of the Lyric Hammersmith. Romeo and Juliet will be designed by Paul
Wills, with Grant Olding as Composer, Maisie Carter as Fight Director, Tamsin Hurtado-Clarke as Movement Director,
Text by Si Trinder, and Voice by Liz Flint. Romeo and Juliet is cast by Becky Paris, Head of Casting at Shakespeare’s
Globe.
The Crucible written by Arthur Miller runs from 8 May to 12 July, directed by Ola Ince (Othello). This production of
revolutionary American playwright Arthur Miller’s seminal play about Salem in 1692, and McCarthy’s 1950’s America,
marks the first time a modern classic will be performed in the Globe Theatre. When rumours grow that a group of girls
are practicing witchcraft, mass hysteria sweeps through the town of Salem, Massachusetts. Ola is a critically acclaimed,
award-winning theatre, film, and opera director. Her previous work for the Globe includes Othello (2024) and Romeo
and Juliet (2021). Ola was an Artistic Associate at the Royal Court Theatre from 2018-2022, and Artistic Associate at
the Lyric Hammersmith and Theatre Royal Stratford East in 2016. Other theatre credits include Once On This
Island (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Christmas in the Sunshine (Unicorn Theatre), Heart (Minetta Lane Theatre,
NYC), Is God Is & Poet in da Corner (Royal Court Theatre), The Knife of Dawn (Royal Opera House), Viral (Headlong
Theatre and Century Films), Appropriate (Donmar), The Convert, Dutchman (Young Vic), and Twilight: Los Angeles
1992 (Gate Theatre). The Crucible will be designed by Amelia Jane Hankin, with Lindsay McAllister as Assistant
Director, Renell Shaw as Composer, and Voice and Text by Annemette Verspeak.
The Merry Wives of Windsor runs from 4 July until 20 September, directed by Sean Holmes. Elizabethan propriety
dissolves into beautiful chaos in this story of mischief, madness, and metamorphoses. Boisterous, and disreputable
knight Sir John Falstaff hatches a plan to restore his fortunes by seducing two wealthy housewives, Mistress Ford and
Mistress Page, who decide to play a few tricks of their own. The Merry Wives of Windsor will be designed by Grace
Smart, Text by Si Trinder, and Voice by Gary Horner.
Twelfth Night, or What You Will runs from 8 August to 25 October, directed by Robin Belfield (Princess Essex,
Globe). Shakespeare’s dizzying tragicomedy sweeps into the Globe Theatre in an intoxicating whirlwind, where love
can be as changeable as the weather. Robin is a theatre director, writer, and educator. His directorial credits include
Mother Goose (Theatre Royal Winchester), Princess Essex (Globe), Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, Sapho and
Phao (RSC), Blue/Orange, Red Velvet, You Can’t Take It With You, Vincent in Brixton, The Odd Couple (Richard Burton
Company, RWCMD), Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Adventures of Pinocchio, Arabian Nights, The Wind in the
Willows, Treasure Island (Watermill Theatre), The Santa Trap, Here Be Monsters (UK Tour), Walking the Chains, Trade
It? (Show of Strength, Bristol), The Twits, Charlotte’s Web, A Christmas Carol (Dukes Theatre, Lancaster), The
Entertainer, Oleanna, Othello, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Duck Variations (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton), Machinal,
and Anna Karenina (Oxford School of Drama). Twelfth Night, or What You Will will be designed by Jean Chan, with
Simon Slater as Composer and Ingrid Mackinnon as Movement Director.
Troilus and Cressida runs from 26 September to 26 October, directed by Owen Horsley (Twelfth Night, Regent’s
Park Open Air Theatre). Shakespeare’s genre-defying worlds of Greece and Troy clash satirical study of appearance versus reality, sees two opposing
in this rarely performed play. Owen is an Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare
Company, where he has directed Henry VI: Rebellion, Wars of the Roses, Maydays by David Edgar, Salome by Oscar
Wilde, and The Famous Victories of Henry V. Owen was Associate Director on the RSC King and Country Tour, working
with Gregory Doran on Richard II, Henry IV Part 1 and 2, and Henry V (2013-16). Directing credits also include Diana:
The Musical (Hammersmith Apollo), Into the Woods (RWCMD), La Cenerentola (Nevill Holt Opera), Linck & Mülhahn
(Hampstead Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Garsington Opera), Henry V (Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre), and
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Watermill Theatre). Owen is also an Associate Director for Cheek by Jowl. Troilus and
Cressida will be designed by Ryan Dawson-Laight.
Following the success of Twelfth Night in 2023, the ‘Cue Scripts’ experiment returns on Sunday 14 September with A
Midsummer Night’s Dream: For One Night Only, putting the original process at the heart of the Globe. The production
will see a company of actors all meeting for the first time on the day of performance. The evening promises nothing but
joy when both artists and audience take part in this ultra-live theatrical experiment. Following directing Twelfth Night:
For One Night Only, Blanche McIntyre returns to the Globe, having most recently directed Antony and Cleopatra (2024).
Other directorial credits include The Invention of Love (Hampstead Theatre), and The Merry Wives of Windsor (RSC).
Rough Magic runs from 19 July – 23 August in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Co-produced by Shakespeare’s Globe
and Splendid Productions, the summer 2024 hit returns with a supernaturally silly adventure featuring the Weird Sisters
of Macbeth. Globe Director of Education Lucy Cuthbertson (Director of Olivier award-nominated Midsummer
Mechanicals, 2022; and Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank: Romeo & Juliet, 2023) directs, with additional
direction from Splendid Productions’ Kerry Frampton. Rough Magic is written by Kerry Frampton and Ben Hales
and designed by Rose Revitt, with Kate Webster as Choreographer, John Bulleid as Illusion Designer, and Claire
Llewellyn as Fight Director.
Our flagship project for secondary schools, Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank, returns for its 19th year with a
production of Macbeth in the Globe Theatre. This gripping 90-minute production is created especially for young people
and designed to support the curriculum. Public performances from 13 March – 20 April will run alongside the previously
announced schools’ project, supported by Deutsche Bank. Opening on 6 March, there are over 26,000 free tickets for
pupils aged 11-16 at London and Birmingham state schools, with subsidised tickets for schools nationwide and a range
of accessible performances including Integrated BSL. The production will be directed by Shakespeare’s Globe’s Director
of Education, Lucy Cuthbertson.
Supported by Playwright’s ’73, Sa