Join Warts and All Theatre for an EXCLUSIVE LINK:UP with Emma Rice!

Emma is currently proud Artistic Director of Wise Children and has a career that includes Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe and ambitious performances in London's West End as well as smaller theatres.

Budding performers, directors, producers and everyone in between- grab your tickets and get the opportunity to quiz one of the brightest minds and accomplished practitioners in the industry.

Price: Pay What You Can

How your donation helps:

£8 - will enable one disadvantaged young person to engage in one of our workshops for free.

£15 - provides three free sessions of a drama club in a primary school for one participant.

£48 - will enable one disadvantaged young person to engage with our workshops for half a term.

LINK: UP gives you the chance to ask questions to creatives across all sectors of the industry. Your donation for your LINK: UP ticket goes directly to enabling children and young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to engage in our work for free. Your donation contributes towards our ongoing bursary fundraising to ensure everyone has the opportunity to engage in arts and culture, regardless of their background.

Hosted by Warts and All Theatre Participants, LINK: UP removes barriers and empowers young people as artists. So send them your questions and get the answers you’ve always wanted to know.

Who are they?

Emma Rice is the proud Artistic Director of Wise Children. She adapted and directed the company’s first two productions, Angela Carter’s Wise Children and Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers, and revived the gorgeous Romantics Anonymous.

Emma's shows:

As Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe: Romantics Anonymous, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Little Matchgirl (and Other Happier Tales).

As joint Artistic Director of Kneehigh: The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk, Tristan & Yseult, 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips, The Wild Bride, The Red Shoes, The Wooden Frock, The Bacchae, Cymbeline (in association with RSC); A Matter of Life and Death (in association with National Theatre);Rapunzel (in association with Battersea Arts Centre); Brief Encounter (in association with David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers Productions); Don John (in association with the RSC and Bristol Old Vic); Wah! Wah! Girls (in association with Sadler’s Wells and Theatre Royal Stratford East for World Stages); and Steptoe and Son.

Emma received the Outstanding Contribution to British Theatre award at the 2019 UK Theatre Awards.

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Photography credits to Steve Tanner.