Shakespeare's Globe 'Love in Isolation'

Amanda was invited by Shakespeare’s Globe to create some content for its ‘Love in Isolation’ project. This project has seen the Globe reach out tourists who have performed on the iconic Globe stage to share words of love.

Shakespearesglobe.org.uk:

‘To celebrate Shakespeare’s 456th birthday, we invited artists to perform Shakespeare’s words (quotes, sonnets, soliloquies or even stage directions!) from their place of social distancing. We hope these words will inspire and comfort you wherever you are. #LoveInIsolation’

Amanda chose to perform Sonnet 127 - the first in Shakespeares series of sonnets to the ‘dark lady’ - as a way of showing support for the Black Lives Matter movement #blm and to talk about Black beauty. Working in collaboration with Director, Steve Brown (stevebrowncreative.com), Sound Designer, Alexandra Faye Braithwaite and Visual effects artist Ben Grub to create a darkly beautiful re-imagining of the sonnet.

You can watch the full sonnet here