Emilia
Emilia
Release: 2021-03-01
·Runtime: 140m
Emilia took our wooden ‘O’ by storm in late 2018, celebrating women’s voices the world over through the story of a trailblazing, forgotten woman, Emilia Bassano. 400 years ago, Emilia wanted her voice to be heard. In 1611 she penned the words to her ‘Vertuous Reader’ as part of a volume of radical, feminist and subversive poetry. Yet the little we know now of Emilia is restricted to the possibility that she may have been the ‘Dark Lady’ of Shakespeare’s Sonnets – and the rest of her story has been erased by history. Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s acclaimed play revealed the life of Emilia: writer, wife, lover, mother, muse.
Cast
Sarah Seggari
as Lady Cordelia/Flora
Saffron Coomber
as Emilia 1
Adelle Leonce
as Emilia 2
Clare Perkins
as Emilia 3
Nadia Albina
as Lady Katherine Howard/Desdemona/River Woman
Anna Andresen
as Lady Mary Sidney/Margaret Johnson/Eve
Sophie Stone
as Lady Margaret Clifford/Midwife/Drunk Man 1/Priest 2/River Woman
Amanda Wilkin
as Alphonso Lanier/River Woman/Emilia in Othello
Charity Wakefield
as William Shakespeare/Drunk Man 2/Valentine Simmes/River Woman
Jackie Clune
as Lord Thomas Howard/Hester/Lady Helena
Carolyn Pickles
as Lord Henry Carey/Judith/Priest