V&A Performance Festival

Plenty of things have happened on April 23, but Shakespeare’s birthday has gotta be one of the most monumental in history. No wonder the V&A sets aside 10 days for a programme of live performances, talks, screenings and workshops (plus more) by actors, musicians, dancers and comedians around the Bard’s day of birth. This year’s festival marks 100 years of the museum’s Theatre and Performance collection, and it’ll follow a ‘remastered’ theme. In celebration of Record Store Day, audio company Bowers & Wilkins will create an interactive installation of sound equipment, and there’ll be screenings from the National Video Archive of Performance, including from the all-female performance of Julius Caesar (Donmar Warehouse, 2013). There’ll also be a special Friday Late to look at the next waves of feminism through performance, but there's plenty more where that came from.