The Decentred Shakespeares Network was created in 2021 in order to disrupt ways of making, teaching and thinking about Shakespeare practice in the contemporary performing arts industry and the field of Shakespeare studies. To do so, it reverses the traditional flows of knowledge through enabling, championing and spotlighting the process and creations of global artists and scholars within the network.

There are three core pillars of the network’s digital practice:

• *Site* and its layers of colonial, cultural and immediate history.
• *People* in the *Site* working with Shakespeare as a means to explore their identity.
• The *Languages* used by the *People* within the *Site*.

From its conception, the network has enabled members to share processes and approaches to theatre making and actor training bespoke to the practitioners’ performance and storytelling traditions.

By spotlighting both the processes and creations of the network through performances, research publications and the creation of educational materials for all levels of education, the Decentred Shakespeares Network serves to update the making and teaching of Shakespeare’s work in a way which speaks to the global values, technological capabilities and ethical focus of 21st century performance making.