Running order

Act 1 (approx 55 minutes)

• Henry V, Prologue | Samuel West as Chorus
• Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 5 | Tony Robinson as Malvolio
• Venus and Adonis | extract Danny Sapani
• Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2 | Susan Wokoma as Juliet & Toheeb Jimoh as Romeo
• Measure for Measure, Act 2, Scene 4 | Olivia Williams as Isabella
• Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act 4, Scene 3 | Luke Thompson as Berowne
• Sonnet 29 | Danny Sapani
• All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 4, Scene 3 | Stephen Mangan as Parolles
• Henry VI, Part 1, Act 1, Scene 2 | Susan Wokoma as Joan la Pucelle
• The Taming of the Shrew, Act 4, Scene 5 | Samantha Spiro as Katherine, Danny Sapani as Petruchio and Paul Chahidi as Hortensio
• Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2 | Damian Lewis as Mark Antony
• As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 7 | Paul Chahidi as Jaques
  
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 3, Scene 1 | Susan Wokoma as Bottom, Damian Lewis as Quince, TBC as Snout and Paul Chahidi as Starveling
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 3, Scene 2 | Samantha Spiro as Hermia, Olivia Williams as Helena, Stephen Mangan as Lysander & Samuel West as Demetrius
• Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1 | Damian Lewis as Hamlet
• A Silly Poem by Spike Milligan | Tony Robinson

Interval (20 minutes)

Act 2 (approx 35 minutes)

• Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2, Scene 3 | Samuel West as Benedick & Samantha Spiro as Beatrice
• Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4, Scene 1 | Samuel West as Benedick & Samantha Spiro as Beatrice
• King John, Act 3, Scene 4 | Olivia Williams as Constance, Toheeb Jimoh as Pandolph & Danny Sapani as King Philip
• Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3 | Stephen Mangan as Polonius
• Cymbeline, Act 2, Scene 5 | Damian Lewis as Posthumus
• Antony and Cleopatra, Act 5, Scene 2 | Olivia Williams as Cleopatra
• Measure for Measure, Act 3, Scene 1 | Toheeb Jimoh as Claudio
• Richard II, Act 5, Scene 5 | Samuel West as Richard II
• Henry V, Act 5, Scene 2 | Damian Lewis as Henry V & Paul Chahidi as Katharine
• Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 3 | Tony Robinson as Porter
• Sonnet 116 | Toheeb Jimoh
• The Merchant of Venice, Act 3, Scene 1 | Tracy Ann Oberman as Shylock
• King Lear, Act 1, Scene 4 | Danny Sapani as King Lear & Samantha Spiro as Goneril
• The Tempest, Act 4, Scene 1 | Luke Thompson as Prospero
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 5, Scene 1 | Tony Robinson as Puck

The evening was curated by Allie Esiri, with extracts taken from her anthology, Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year (Pan Macmillan, £22).

Signed copies are available at the theatre after the show.

Thank you: Everyone at the Open Air Theatre, Prof Michael Dobson at Shakespeare Institute, Gaby Morgan at Pan Macmillan.

www.allieesiri.com