Shakespeare's Sisters

Mothers and mistresses, saints and sinners, fairies and murderers, witches and wenches - this recital puts Shakespeare’s female characters centre-stage and lets them speak their minds.

Harriet Walter (Succession, Killing Eve, The Crown and Ted Lasso) reads from her riveting new anthology She Speaks! What Shakespeare’s Women Might Have Said, which imagines what the women in Shakespeare’s plays might have been secretly thinking, while soprano Sophie Bevan and pianist Christopher Glynn explore how these heroines and anti-heroines have inspired composers down the ages.

Join them to ask whether the greatest writer ever known was a radical feminist or a sexist pig.