"First up then is Emily Lim's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which runs April 23 to August 29. Keen-eyed observers may note that there is currently a production of the same play running at the Globe's indoor Sam Wanamaker theatre. To put it bluntly, A Midsummer Night's Dream is big bucks at the box office, and there's an endless stream of things you can do to it."
"Then it's time for a somewhat unexpected Globe debut for Bertold Brecht, and one of the most influential playwrights to have ever lives bar Shakespeare himself. Elle While will direct Globe artistic director Michelle Terry in the title role of Mother Courage and Her Children (May 7-Jun 27), his great anti-war play about the eponymous hardbitten survivor, picking her way through a ruined world."
"That's your lot for non-Shakespeare, as the season then ploughs into the much loved ultimate romcom Much Ado About Nothing (Jun 11-Oct 24), which is directed by Chelsea Walker, who did a bang up job with the obscure All's Well That Ends Well a couple of years back. Speaking of obscure plays, something the Globe has been pushing a little of late is a populist summer season except with one proper Shakespeare obscurity given a proper big scale production."
Shakespeare's Globe's 2026 outdoor summer season opens on April 23, the playwright's birth and death date. Emily Lim's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream runs April 23–August 29 and promises an uplifting, communal staging contrasting the Wanamaker theatre's bleaker production. Elle While directs Michelle Terry in Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children (May 7–June 27), an anti-war drama about a hardbitten survivor in a ruined world. Chelsea Walker directs Much Ado About Nothing (June 11–October 24). The season mixes popular Shakespeare titles with a large-scale revival of an obscure Shakespeare play and a non-Shakespeare debut.
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