About this Event
What’s she been in? Every damn thing. Dame Harriet Walter has been entertaining audiences for over five decades. From British TV staples such as Law & Order, Downton Abbey, and Killing Eve, to HBO and Apple mega-hits like Succession and Ted Lasso. Her IMDb profile lists 133 credits, and that barely scratches the surface, because if there’s one thing she’s done time and time again, it’s Shakespeare.
Name a great Shakespearean woman (Cleopatra, Lady Macbeth, Portia), Dame Harriet has worn the frock and got the T-shirt. She’s also strapped on a metaphorical codpiece and taken on some of the greatest male roles too, including Brutus and Henry IV. Dame Harriet knows Shakespeare so well that she decided to write some new dialogue for his best female characters. In She Speaks!, she creates thirty new parts for Shakespeare’s women, revealing what they might really have been thinking.
"I worship Shakespeare. His psychological insight is second to none, but the mirror that he held up to nature reflected a predominantly male image of the world. I pondered the long shadow of his genius and tried to think of ways to let a little sunlight in on some of his women’s stories. I like to think he wouldn’t mind."
Join us as Dame Harriet describes what it’s like to live inside the skin of so many extraordinary characters and to embody them so fully that you can almost peer into their minds. For one night only, Dame Harriet Walter will speak, and we will all be listening.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Ladbroke Hall, 79 Barlby Road, London, United Kingdom
GBP 15.00 to GBP 40.00
