Shakespeare in Love would go on to win seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actress (Gwyneth Paltrow), Best Supporting Actress (Judi Dench), and Best Original Screenplay. In 1593 London, William Shakespeare is a sometime player in the Lord Chamberlain's Men and poor playwright for Philip Henslowe, owner of The Rose Theatre. Shakespeare is working on a new comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter". Suffering from writer's block, he has barely begun the play, and is further distracted by attempts both to seduce Rosaline, the mistress of Richard Burbage, owner of the rival Curtain Theatre and to convince Burbage to buy the
Shakespeare in Love (play) Royal, Nottingham (15 to 20 October), Festival Theatre, Malvern (23 to 27 October), Oxford Playhouse (30 October to 3 November), Cambridge Arts Theatre (5 to 9 November), King's Theatre, Edinburgh (12 to 17 November) and Chichester Festival Theatre (20 to 24 November), with further dates and casting to be announced. It was announced in August 2018 that Shakespeare in Love will be one of the two headlining productions for the 30th Anniversary of Bard on the Beach in the Kitsilano Neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia. Shakespeare in Love (play) Shakespeare in Love is a play by Lee Hall adapted from