14/09/2026
Our Shakespeare and Race Festival is returning this autumn ⭕
We’re very proud to bring this brilliant festival back for the fifth time, during UK Black History Month.
Our festival includes:
• A special Research in Action session on the global nature of early modern drama
• The Globe Young Company performing Pineapple in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, a new play written by Anne Odeke (Princess Essex)
• A two-day symposium around the theme 'Contested Futures'
• A sharing and discussion of Samurai Othello, a new work-in-progress presented with New Earth Theatre
• Shakespeare and Windrush, a panel conversation with creatives and scholars celebrating the contributions of the British Caribbean community to literature and theatre
• Youths That Thunder, a special presentation of new research about Shakespeare, race and performance