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Documentary following Roy Alexander Weise as he puts together an ‘Afro-Futurist’ production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Other contributors include...
A rock opera version of Macbeth. A stage recording of a performance at Howard University with an Afro-American cast.
Television drama. What should have been the trip of a lifetime is turned upside down when Surender loses his passport and is arrested at customs as an illegal immigrant. Frightened that he will have to go to...
A talk by Professor Errol Hill based on his book of the same title (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1984). The book charts the struggle of Afro-American actors, first as exiles, then in the...
Video recording of Leon Rubin’s 2003 production of Pericles for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival with Jonathan Goad in the title role.
Feature film version of Othello. The production focuses strongly on the intraracial hatred, a concept seen in casting choices and textual cuts. Afro-Americans play Othello, Emilia and Iago.
Two programmes relating to the Open University course AA306: Shakespeare: Text and Performance. 1) Designing Rome and Egypt: examines the contribution of sets and costumes to an interpretation of a play....
Duke Ellington composed incidental music for a Timon of Athens production at the Stratford (Ontario) Festival in 1963. Ellington’s sketches and partial score remained in the Stratford archives since then...
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s new ‘Afro Futurist’ production of one of Shakespeare’s best-loved romantic comedies, filmed in Stratford-upon-Avon. The broadcast is introduced by Clive Myrie....
An experimental interpretation of Hamlet. "Hamlet is placed at the centre of the maelstrom and Ophelia, Gertrude, Claudius and all the other players circle around him. As Hamlet floats on the waves they swim...
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