The Shakespeare hut: a story of memory, performance and identity, 1916-1923

This text tells the forgotten story of the Shakespeare Hut, a huge, mock-Tudor building for New Zealand Anzac soldiers built in Bloomsbury in 1916 to mark Shakespeare's Tercentenary that year.

With a purpose-built performance space, the stage of which hosted the biggest theatrical stars of the age, and as the only built memorial to Shakespeare in London that materialised that fateful year, the Hut is a unique case study in cultural memory and performance of Shakespeare.