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Podcast, This edition features an interview with members of the Cape Town theatre troupe, Baked Shakespeare. In their productions they invite the audience to select two of the actors to continue performing...
Extract of a conversation with The Daily Telegraph critic Dominic Cavendish. John Kani talks about his reasons for playing Caliban in the African RSC / Baxter Theatre production of The Tempest in Cape Town.
Feature film version of Othello with Royston Stoffels in the title role.
Video recording of the the keynote address by Professor Ayanna Thompson on Shakespeare and the American minstrel tradition and productions in which actors wear dark make-up to play Othello to explore bacl...
Video recording of Venus and Adonis staged at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre as part of the Globe to Globe season. Performed by the Isango Ensemble from Cape Town in IsiZulu, IsiXhosa, SeSotho, Setswana,...
Feature film adaptation set in modern-day South Africa. In this version both Othello and Iago are black and Emilia is white.
Television arts documentary series. A profile of Nigel Hawthorne as he prepares to play the title role in King Lear, directed by Ninagawa, for the Royal Shakespeare Company. The programme follows him through...
Video recording, using a single, fixed camera of Baxter Theatre Centre’s 2005 production of Hamlet directed by Janet Suzman with Vaneshran Arumugam as Hamlet.
Television anthology arts series. Alan Yentob presents a documentary about three actors who are preparing to play Hamlet. Welsh actor Wayne Cater is directed by Michael Bogdanov for the Wales Theatre...
Video recording using a single, fixed camera, of The Tempest directed by Janice Honeyman. Antony Sher is Prospero in a production influenced by African ritual, music and dance. The cast is all South African.
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