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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...
Podcast hosted by Thomas Dabbs (Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan). In this edition Edward Wilson-Lee (University of Cambridge) discusses his research into Shakespeare in East Africa.
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...
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...
Series on Africa written and presented by Professor Ali A. Mazrui. Episode 6 looks at the history of governance in Africa. Includes an extract (5 mins) in which an actor delivers Mark Antony’s funeral...
Radio series in five parts. Writers from Sierra Leone, Brazil, India, Iran and China explain why a playwright from sixteenth century Stratford resonates so powerfully in their own countries. In this third...
Radio broadcast: An item (2 mins) in the programme. John Neville talks to an audience about West African audiences’ reactions to Shakespeare’s plays, having recently completed a ten week tour of West...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. When the British came to colonise the African continent in the middle of the 1800s, they brought Shakespeare with them. But after the British left power, it was...
Feature film adaptation set in modern-day South Africa. In this version both Othello and Iago are black and Emilia is white.
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