FEAST: a play in one cooking
By Olivia Negrean
Throughout the 16th and 17th centuries William Shakespeare wrote 37 plays with a staggering 1,191 individual characters: 147 women and 1,044 men. This is one story about 6 of those women, from different parts of the world, different time periods, different social backgrounds, and different stories. Little did Shakespeare know that, centuries later, his characters would come together, off the page once more.
But this time, just for dinner.
Although it is never just dinner, is it?
An international cast bring six of Shakespeare’s most memorable women back off the page
and onto the stage. This time, outside their well-known stories and circumstances.
FEAST premiered at the International Shakespeare Festival in Gdansk, Poland in 2017, and has since been performed at:
Voila! European Theatre Festival
Romanian Cultural Institute, London
York International Shakespeare Festival
Verona Shakespeare Festival
Craiova Shakespeare Festival
Theatre City - Budva, Montenegro
Moldova Shakespeare Festival
BABEL Festival - Târgovişte
FEAST has been translated into Polish (for performance in Rzeszow Wanda Siemaszkowa Theatre) and Romanian (for Craiova and Târgovişte), with Romanian subtitles available for performance upon request.
Reviews
BABEL Festival 2026
Dinner is cooking: Emilia brought the wine, Ophelia organises a salad, Lady Macbeth tends the soup, Imogen sees to the barbecue, while Lady Anne and Isabella have both brought dessert. Each woman has her own story to tell, and her own opinion on the stories of her peers.
As the meal comes together, it becomes clear these iconic characters have been brought together for a reason: to decide whether to change their stories and thereby change the future of womankind, or stay within the confines of what’s been written?
This otherworldly opportunity provides a fantastic avenue for discussion and encourages the audience to think again about Shakespeare’s women. Lovingly crafted by writer Olivia Negrean with a mixture of Shakespeare’s own text, production reviews, and observations about the various plays, FEAST is a poetic and heart-warming production.
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