The Dark Lady

Celebrated Canadian playwright and actor Jessica B. Hill’s The Dark Lady reclaims a story that was almost lost; that of Emilia Bassano, an intriguing multiracial, trilingual woman who was also a talented musician and England’s first female published poet. Is Bassano the “Dark Lady” of Shakespeare’s sonnets? This witty and intimate production brings the two poets together in a complex love story about art, collaboration, desire, and ambition. The dialogue “cracks like a whip” (Winnipeg Free Press) and helps us both understand and challenge our [...]