Forthcoming

To accompany the publication of her book, NO BOYS PLAY HERE, Sally will host a series of digital responses to Shakespeare. Her aim is to speak to actors, directors, writers, teachers, therapists, visual artists and other practioners and ask them to share their form of knowledge and experience of growing through Shakespeare.

Actress and playwright Georgina Hellier works through her response to Shakespeare’s Sonnet 148. Below, Georgina and Sally discuss their relationship to the sonnet form and its particular effects on the life of the body and mind.

Shakespeare’s Sonnets 19, 20 and 30 performed by theatrical missionary, Bruce Wall. Below, Sally and Bruce discuss the visceral nature of the sonnet and Bruce’s work performing Shakespeare with prisoners.

Sonnet 19

Sonnet 23

Sonnet 30

A sorcerer (Prospero) confronts humility. (The Tempest, V,i)In peace there's nothing so becomes a manAs modest stillness and humility:1095But when the blast...