Directed by Sally Cookson

Assistant Director Natalie Simone

WE ARE ONLY AS POWERFUL AS THE STORIES THAT WE TELL.

WE HAVE NOT ALWAYS BEEN ABLE TO TELL THEM. 

TIME. TO. LISTEN.

1609

I AM EMILIA.
Writer. Wife. Lover. Mother. Muse.
I am unheard.
I want education, equality, opportunity, respect. For us all.
We want choice.
We want a voice.

2023

WE ARE EMILIA.
400 years ago Emilia Bassano wanted her voice to be heard.

It wasn’t. Her story is still our story.
Emilia and her sisters reach out to us across the centuries with passion, fury, laughter and song. 

CREATIVE TEAM

Cast Gaia Ashwood, Kate Cartwright, Sophie Carlton, Zoe Doughty, Sumāh Ebelé, Holly Hawgood, Ellie Jack, Petra Joan-Athene, Assa Kanouté, Anna Murphy, Lucy Pascoe, Melina Sinadinou.⁠
Writer Morgan Lloyd Malcolm⁠
Director Sally Cookson⁠
Assistant Director Natalie Simone & Lydia Cook
Set Designer Alice Sales⁠
Lighting Designer Adrianne Broadgate⁠
Sound Designer Ebony Hayes⁠
Composer John O’Hara⁠
Movement Director Laila Diallo⁠
Costume Designer Rhiannon Binnington ⁠
Voice & Dialect Coach Carol Fairlamb⁠
Photos by Craig Fuller