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Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Episode 20 in series. The podcast" examines some of the many ways including, but not limited to, performance that black Americans have encountered, responded...
Video recording (mixed recording, four cameras) of Lolita Chakrabarti’s play about the 19th century actor Ira Aldridge and his taking the role of Othello. Adrian Lester plays Aldridge.
Radio broadcast. In preparing to take on the role of Othello for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Hugh Quarshie goes in search of the wisdom of others about the ethical conundrums of a black actor playing the...
Radio series. Lenny Henry looks at the stage history of Othello.
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...
Radio drama by by Sharon Oakes about the making of Orson Welles’ landmark 1936 production of Macbeth, staged in Harlem for the Federal Theatre Project’s Negro Unit and featuring an all-black cast.
Documentary profile of Edric Connor, who came to England in 1944 and took a job with the World Service. In 1958, he became the first black actor to appear with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
A single camera digital recording of the show Big Mac based on Macbeth performed by the Baked Bean Theatre Company.
Theatre recording of a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream performed by the intergrative theatre group Eisenhans. Consisting in a large part of a disabled performers between the age of 12-18, this...
Six actresses, including performers with disabilities, each present their portrayal of Shakespeare’s tragic heroine. They take to the stage at London’s Barbican Theatre.
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