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Emilia my girl put down your studies we’ve got guests. If you are to be introduced to court as a young lady, you will need armour. Not just for your body - that’s what the corsets are for- but for you my darling. What is both a woman’s greatest shield and most devastating weapon? EMILIA1 You mean our...? She points towards her vagina ...
The little we know of Emilia Bassano is restricted to the possibility that she may have been the 'Dark Lady' of Shakespeare's Sonnets – and the rest of HerStory has been erased by History. Morgan has taken what we know of Bassano, and her poetry, to create this lively, witty play.
- Morgan Lloyd Malcolm
- My Voice, My Story
- Ageing
- Anger Into Action
Emilia wants to find her own voice. She doesn’t want others to speak for her or patronisingly tell her that her story doesn’t matter. But this desire is shared by many people and groups. Our stories tell us who we are, where we have come from, how we got here now. Richard Rose talks about the importance of understanding their own stories for childr...
3 actors play Emilia, one for her childhood and youth, one for her as a young adult, one for her as an older woman. The play explores human development, the values that are consistent as Emilia grows and the way that society and events impacts on her needing to grow up and change from girl to woman to matriarch. For most of the play all three actor...
From a society that restricted what she could write and who she could be. From a society that burnt alive women who they disapproved of. From a society where class, race and gender all restricted the space Emilia was allowed to take up. Still Emilia found a way. Without Emilia and others like her, I would not be allowed to publish this blog now. Ou...
Adopting an intersectional approach, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm (playwright) and Nicole Charles (director) have created a play raising the issues of race, gender, and literary legitimacy from the point of view of Emilia Bassano Lanier (1569–1645).
- Nora Galland
Jul 14, 2019 · By choosing to write within a recognizably cis-het male dramaturgical structure, is Lloyd Malcolm risking the possibility of reinforcing the notion that Emilia needs to be seen through a...
- Maddy Costa
Emilia is a play by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm inspired by the life of the 17th century poet and feminist Emilia Bassano, as well as her speculated role as William Shakespeare's "Dark Lady."
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In Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's electrifying play, Emilia and her sisters reach out across the centuries with passion, fury, laughter and song. Emilia received its acclaimed premiere at Shakespeare's Globe in 2018, before galvanising West End audiences the following year.
