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  • Voodoo Macbeth (2021)

    Series
    Afternoon Drama
    Director
    Gaynor Macfarlane

    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.

  • King Lear (2018 Video)

    Director
    Bridget Caldwell; Michael Buffong
    Producer
    Caroline Roberts-Cherry

    Stage to screen film of the Talawa Theatre Company’s production of King Lear staged at the Royal Exchange, Manchester in 2016. Don Warrington is Lear. Directed for stage by Michael Buffong and for screen...

  • Hamlet (2016 Video)

    Series
    RSC Live from Stratford on Avon
    Director
    Simon Godwin

    Live broadcast of the the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2016 production of Hamlet directed by Simon Godwin with a predominately all-black cast and Paapa Essiedu in the title role. Extras include a...

  • "Tell Him How to Tell My Story" (2016 Audio)

    aka: Othello and Blackface

    Series
    Shakespeare Unlimited
    Producer
    Richard Paul

    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...

  • Othello (2016 Television, Video)

    Series
    RSC Live from Stratford Upon Avon
    Director
    Iqbal Khan

    Video recording of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2015 staging of Othello directed by Iqbal Khan with Hugh Quarshie as Othello and Lucian Msamati as Iago. The production caused great interest as it was...

  • Hamlet (2016 Video)

    Director
    Simon Godwin

    Video of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2016 staging of Hamlet directed by Simon Godwin with a predominately all-black cast and Paapa Essiedu in the title role.

  • Looking for the Moor (2015 Radio)

    Series
    Sunday Feature
    Producer
    Roger James Elsgood

    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...

  • Othello Across the Ages (2015 Radio)

    Series
    Raising the Bar: 100 Years of Black British Theatre and Screen
    Producer
    Simon Elmes

    Radio series. Lenny Henry looks at the stage history of Othello.

  • Romeo and Juliet in Harlem (2014 Film)

    Director
    Aleta Chappelle
    Producer
    Aleta Chappelle; Donny McTaggart

    A film version of Romeo and Juliet with an all-black cast. Hernando Caicedo and Jasmine Carmichael play the title roles.

  • "Our Own Voices with Our Own Tongues": Shakespeare in Black and White (2014 Audio)

    aka: Shakespeare in Black and White

    Series
    Shakespeare Unlimited
    Producer
    Richard Paul

    Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Episode 19 in series. The podcast revisits the era when Jim Crow segregation was at its height, from a few years after the end of the Civil War to the 1940s and...