We’re delighted to announce that this summer, Splendid are returning to Shakespeare’s Globe with a new family show A World Elsewhere.
A World Elsewhere follows our previous Olivier Award Nominated collaborations with the Globe, Midsummer Mechanicals and Rough Magic. It’s an all-new Shakespeare-inspired adventure, this time into the greatest story of all: the imagination itself.
Cass is an eleven-year old boy (nearly twelve!) who finds real life tricky. Luckily, whenever things get too much for him he can take refuge in his imagination – a place where stories burst out effortlessly, and he can go anywhere and be anyone.
Inspired by the tales from Shakespeare read to him at bedtime by his Gran, Cass and his faithful band of imaginary friends have fought with kings, flown with witches, faced shipwrecks, ghosts and monsters, and dived into adventures of every kind.
But something is going wrong. The stories have stopped making sense, the adventures aren’t adventurous and a strange darkness is creeping in.
Finding himself lost in a Shakespearean Shadow Land, Cass must work out if he’s in a tragedy like Hamlet, a Comedy of his own Errors, or another world altogether? Wherever he is, escaping is going to be a whole other story…
Written by Splendid’s Kerry Frampton and Ben Hales, and directed by Lucy Cuthbertson (and featuring Kerry as a classical actor AND a proper Fool) , A World Elsewhere is a hilarious theatrical odyssey, a joyful celebration of storytelling, and a fast-paced adventure that puts the audience exactly where they should be: in the centre of the action.
A World Elsewhere performs in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, the deliciously air-conditioned indoor space at Shakespeare’s Globe in London from 25 July – 30 August 2026.
Tickets are on sale now. We look forward to seeing you there!
