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Paul Edmondson talks to Debra Ann Byrd, artistic director of the Harlem Shakespeare Festival, about her one-woman theatrical memoir, Becoming Othello: A Black Girl’s Journey.
Podcast. Barbara Bogaev interviews Dr. Freda Scott Giles (University of Georgia) about Black responses to the Bard. Topics covered include the African Company from the 1820s; the Harlem renaissance of the...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Othello is the story of a tragic murder and suicide involving a dark-skinned general and his aristocratic, white-skinned bride. Who should direct it? Who is...
Podcast hosted by Dr Paul Edmondson and Dr Anjna Chouhan that discusses Shakespeare in the 21st Century. In this episode, Debra Ann Byrd, artistic director of the Harlem Shakespeare Festival, discusses her...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. The podcast deals with race, Othello, and how the Elizabethans portrayed blackness on stage. It also offers a new interpretation of Desdemona’s handkerchief...
Podcast. Barbara Bogaev discusses race and Blackness in Elizabethan England with Dr. Ambereen Dadabhoy (Harvey Mudd College).
Podcast. David Sterling Brown (Binghamton University) is interviewed by Barbara Bogaev and discusses Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus in the context of Critical Race Theory.
Barbara Bogaev interviews director Kenny Leon about his contemporary all-black production of ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ starring Danielle Brooks. First performed at the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in...
Podcast. Barbara Bogaev talks to Dr. Joyce Green MacDonald about four Black women who performed Shakespeare professionally between 1821 ands 1960 in the USA: The African Grove Theatre’s "Miss Welsh,"...
British Radio host Simon Mayo talks to Barbara Bogaev about his novel, Mad Blood Stirring, which is based on the true story of England’s first all-black production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet,...
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