Simon Russell Beale and Michael Morpurgo to feature in MOVING STORIES at Shakespeare's Globe

Photo credit: Johan Persson

Shakespeare’s Globe will host Moving Stories in the candlelit Sam  Wanamaker Playhouse on 25 June in support of UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.

The event will include sketches, short plays and songs examining the experiences of refugees, and responses to the crisis. All profits from the event will be donated to the UNHCR to help  towards providing support and assistance to refugees affected by the war in Ukraine. 

Directed by Robin Belfield, a company of actors including Simon Russell Beale (The Lehman Trilogy, Broadway), David Morrissey (The Walking Dead, AMC), Rakie Ayola (Noughts + Crosses, Mammoth Screen/Participant/Roc Nation), Omar Baroud (Cabaret, West End), Bob Barrett (Holby City, BBC One), Jonathan Broadbent (The Comedy of Errors, Royal Shakespeare Company), Gabrielle Brooks (Once On This  Island, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Ray Fearon (Coronation Street, ITV), Caroline Sheen (Les  Misérables, Universal Pictures), Yasmin Taheri (Murder in Provence, Monumental Television Ltd), and Matthew Woodyatt (One Man, Two Guvnors, West End, UK & International tour) – with more to be announced soon – perform new work written and donated by some of British Theatre's leading playwrights and artists including Michael Morpurgo, Richard Bean, Stephanie Dale, Staten Cousins-Roe, David Edgar, Phil Porter, Alexander Rudd, and Jenifer Toksvig.

Originally curated in response to the Syrian refugee crisis, Moving Stories was first performed at the National Theatre in 2016, and has since visited Theatre Royal Haymarket, St Paul's  Cathedral, and the Palace of Westminster. 

Public booking begins at 10am today (24 May) here.