Deaf News: Deaf actress Nadia Nadarajah cast in lead role in Globe’s Antony and Cleopatra

Posted on January 23, 2020 by



Deaf actress Nadia Nadarajah is to star as Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra at the Shakespeare’s Globe, it has been announced.

The news comes as the theatre revealed its summer season, with the Shakespearean tragedy running from 18 July to 29 August.

A description on the Globe’s website reads: “The personal and the political are always inseparably entwined, but what happens when the personal becomes political and threatens an already unstable empire?

This may appear to be Ancient Rome and a long lost Egypt but Shakespeare’s experiment with love and power, reputation and regret, fake news and the painful truth, lives and breathes now, has stood the test of time, and is about to be radically and raucously reimagined.”

Commenting on the Globe’s latest collection of shows, Michelle Terry, Artistic Director, said summer at the venue will “be fuelled by mythic love and the hope of radical and positive transformation”.

“The preoccupations that consume Shakespeare’s work are not too distant from our own: growing inequality, social injustice, a natural world raging at the irresponsibility of humankind.

“But through these metaphysical and mythic works of art we are also given the opportunity to imagine an alternative.

“Under the sun and the moon in the most unique, irreverent and inherently theatrical playhouse in the world, we continue to look to the past to help us better understand the world today and the role we all play in creating its future,” she said.

Antony and Cleopatra is one of several productions being staged at the Globe in the coming months, with Harry Potter star Alfred Enoch starring in Romeo and Juliet.

Other shows in the Summer 2020 season include comedies Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night.

Nadia’s casting in Antony and Cleopatra follows her performance in The Royal Court’s Midnight Movie and her role in The Globe’s As You Like It, which returned to the venue last year.

Antony and Cleopatra will have several access performances during its run, with a BSL interpreted showing on 18 August and two captioned performances taking place on 22 and 27 August.

Public booking will open at 10am on Wednesday 19 February. More information can be found on the Shakespeare’s Globe website.

By Liam O’Dell. Liam is a mildly deaf freelance journalist and blogger from Bedfordshire. He wears bilateral hearing aids and can be found talking about disability, theatre, politics and more on Twitter and on his website.

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