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How a theatre project in women's prisons shook up Shakespeare and transformed lives

The company of the Donmar’s all-female Shakespeare trilogy (Julius Caesar, Henry IV and The Tempest) from the filmed version of the productions. Photo: Donmar Warehouse
The company of the Donmar’s all-female Shakespeare trilogy (Julius Caesar, Henry IV and The Tempest) from the filmed version of the productions. Photo: Donmar Warehouse
From 2012 to 2017, the Donmar Warehouse staged a trilogy of all-female Shakespeare productions, set in women’s prisons and created in collaboration with inmates. The key players tell The Stage about the impact the project has had both on the art and the women they worked with

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