At Gower Street Waterstones, Shakespeare isn’t just on the shelves—it’s unfolding in the aisles.

With only 3 days of rehearsal, Will & Co will breathe life into the Bard’s work throughout the summer. Come promenade with us and dive into how Shakespeare gets made!

Bard in the Yard is two hour-long plays that have been performed by 37 actors over 2 years of lockdown in gardens, pubs, care homes, theatres and everywhere in between across the UK! The project has Dame Helen Mirren as patron and gathered widespread critical and public acclaim.

Will, or Eight Lost Years of William Shakespeare's Life is a play by Victoria Gartner bringing to life a young Shakespeare in search of his voice. It has been performed from 2018 to 2019 across the UK (Rose Playhouse, Edinburgh Fringe) and Europe (Switzerland, Germany).

Anne, a short play about Shakespeare's wife, was selected as part of a festival of female voices at the Pleasance in 2019, and part of Read for the Globe in the lockdown of 2020. It was written by Victoria Gartner and performed by Katherine Moran.

Judith & Hamnet is a short play by Victoria Gartner about the seven stages of grief, and remembrance. It hovers between dream and reality. It was created for the Lausanne Shakespeare Festival of 2019 and was performed in the UK, Germany and Switzerland.