New items for 2024
For 2024 the exhibition has been co-curated with a number of local community organisations, including Coventry’s Positive Youth Foundation, Fred Winter Centre, ILEAP and Warwickshire Pride. The groups have shaped the exhibition by choosing which items they would like to see in it, including the costume of the Player Queen from Hamlet (2008) worn by Ryan Gage.
The exhibition includes Beyond the Borders, a spoken word film by artist, musician, rapper and Coventry’s Poet laureate John Bernard, working with the RSC and Positive Youth Foundation, inspired by Tanika Gupta's play The Empress, that played in the Swan Theatre in 2023.