The season opens on 4 May with a Globe premiere, Shakespeare’s great tragedy, Othello. The play will be directed by Wilson Milam who received a 2006 Tony Award nomination for The Lieutenant of Inishmore on Broadway, with original music composition by Academy Award winner Stephen Warbeck (Shakespeare in Love).

 

From 15 May our acclaimed hit of last summer, Howard Brenton’s In Extremis, returns for two weeks.  Special Offer: best seats available for only £10 for all performances of In Extremis (subject to availability). Call the Theatre box office on 020 7401 9919 and quote "£10 offer". 

 

The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare’s most compelling tragic-comedy, joins the season from 2 June. It will be directed by Rebecca Gatward who recently co-directed The Canterbury Tales for the RSC.

 

Love’s Labour’s Lost, another Globe premiere, plays from 1 July. A carnival of every comic trick in Shakespeare’s imagination, and ideally suited to our special arena. It will be directed by the Globe’s Artistic Director Dominic Dromgoole.

 

Two new plays have been commissioned for this season, both dramatising democratic revolutions. Holding Fire! by Jack Shepherd explores the turbulent times of early Victorian England. It opens on 28 July.

 

Finally, We The People, about the individuals who, in 1787, decided what America could and should be, opens on 2 September. It has been written by Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation.