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Harriet Walter: What Shakespeare’s Women Might Have Said   

Lending our ears to the silent soliloquies of Shakespeare’s women

Harriet Walter (Photo credit Sim Canetty-Clarke)
Wednesday 21 May 2025
8-9pm
Event Code: 21
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After a lifetime of bringing Shakespeare’s female characters to life on stage, multi-award-winning British actor Harriet Walter lends them her pen in She Speaks!.

Shining a new light on classic stories, Harriet writes between the lines of some of Shakespeare’s most compelling characters – from servants to sovereigns. She imagines what Lady Macbeth, Ophelia, Juliet’s nurse, Cleopatra and others could have said without the constraints of the Bard’s perspective and reveals what might be their true desires

Join Harriet in conversation with Ailsa Piper as they delve into the unexplored depths of the English literary canon. 
With her gravitas, empathy, intellect and absolute belly laugh wit, the unheard voices soar. A real celebration of her life and art.
Phyllida Lloyd
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