Thurs 16 July: ‘All the east’: Shakespeare in the East End
To celebrate the publication of a new edition of his widely acclaimed Rough Guide to Shakespeare, join Hackney author and Guardian writer Andrew Dickson on a fascinating tour of all things Shakespearean. From the recent discovery of a sixteenth-century theatre buried in Shoreditch to Shakespeare’s turns at the nineteenth-century music hall, he’ll explore the significance of east London in Shakespeare’s story – and reveal why the birthplace of English theatre might be right under our feet …
7:00pm, tickets £3 – redeemable against the price of the book.