In this moment of rising populism and Brexit, women’s rights are under threat, but hear this: women are rising. The #MeToo, #SayHerName and Time’s Up campaigns testify to this fact. But there is much more work to do.

The Women & Power festival at Shakespeare’s Globe will ask some of the most important questions of our moment. Join the conversation to discover the role that theatre, music, art and poetry can play in exploring the intersections of gender, race and class that are at the centre of social change today. How does the work of Shakespeare speak to this moment of gender revolution? How can we use Shakespearean performance to tell our own stories of oppression and assault?

This festival includes performances, panel events, a scholarly symposium and workshops that will spotlight and prioritise the work and the voices of women of all backgrounds.

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Hamlet and She

6 DECEMBER 

SAM WANAMAKER PLAYHOUSE 

This unique event will explore what it means to be a woman and take on Shakespeare's iconic Prince featuring Professor Farah Karim-Cooper, Maxine Peake and Michelle Terry.

In Conversation: Measure for Measure

7 DECEMBER 

AT HOME 

Discover how the sexual politics of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure can help us to navigate our own moment. Featuring Mariah Gale, Gina Martin and Emma Whipday. 

Online Symposium: Empowerment to Disempowerment: Intersectional Voices

10 DECEMBER

AT HOME 

This one-day online symposium gathers experts, activists and theatre practitioners in a vital exploration of intersectionality, women, and the precarity of power. 

Continuing Professional Development: Shakespeare and Women

11 DECEMBER - 12 MARCH 

AT HOME 

This online workshop will equip teachers with strategies to facilitate conversations with their classes about sexism, misogyny and depictions of women in Shakespeare.

The Guilty Feminist

12 DECEMBER 

SAM WANAMAKER PLAYHOUSE 

Join comedian Deborah Frances-White and her guests for this The Guilty Feminist show, recorded in front of a live audience in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. 

In Conversation: Measure for Measure

31 January 

AT HOME 

Discover how the sexual politics of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure can help us to navigate our own moment. This discussion will explore the tension between sexual desire, power and religion.

How might these questions still be urgent for us now in a world of incel violence and fundamentalist regimes that oppress women and girls?

Guest speakers include: Mariah Gale, Gina Martin and Emma Whipday, with the Globe’s Teaching and Research Fellow, Hanh Bui, as Moderator.