Grassroots Shakespeare London

Grassroots Shakespeare London is a British theatre company based in London, UK. The company specialises in producing accessible works of William Shakespeare inspired by using Elizabethan original theatre practices.

Grassroots Shakespeare London was established in London in 2011.

The company's first production was A Midsummer Night's Dream, which performed in Hyde Park and Victoria Embankment Gardens. In December 2011, they performed The Merry Wives of Windsor at the New Red Lion Theatre and in 2012, they launched the theatre festival at The Scoop at More London with Much Ado About Nothing during HM The Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. This production also played at the Dell Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company as part of the World Shakespeare Festival 2012.

In August 2012 they devised a new production of Much Ado About Nothing for their summer residency at Victoria Embankment Gardens and were nominated by the Off West End Theatre Awards for Best Ensemble and Best Production. They also received recommendations from London newspaper The Evening Standard and Time Out.

In December 2012 to January 2013, the company performed a repertory season of A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest. In 2013, the company presented a 'Summer of Love' repertory season of Love's Labour's Lost and Romeo and Juliet in Islington at the Old Red Lion Theatre.

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