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Professor Michael Dobson (Shakespeare Institute) interviews actor John Kani about growing up in South Africa under apartheid, his career and his love of Shakespeare.
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...
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...
Recording of a lecture by Ruben Espinosa (Arizona State University) on Shakespeare and contemporary social issues, followed by a 15-minute Q&A. Delivered at a conference co-hosted at Spier Wine Farm from 24...
Feature film adaptation set in modern-day South Africa. In this version both Othello and Iago are black and Emilia is white.
Recording of an online presentation by Dr Candice Livingston of CPUT (Cape Peninsula University of Technology) on her use of game technology to teach Macbeth remotely under Covid-19 pandemic restrictions.
Podcast. In this edition, Dr Varsha Panjwani interviews actor-director Dame Janet Suzman about her productions of Hamlet, Othello, and Antony and Cleopatra in South Africa and England.
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.
Matthew Sweet is joined live by Professor Preti Taneja, author of a novel We That Are Young, which sets the King Lear in Delhi; Dr Iain Smith, who studies films from around the world; and by Andrew Dickson,...
Living Shakespeare is a collection of filmed essays commissioned by the British Council as part of the Shakespeare Lives project which celebrates Shakespeare’s influence on culture, language, education and...
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