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5 results found for '"Ayanna Thompson"' in Person.
Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race, The (2021 Video)
Video recording. Ayanna Thompson, Professor of English at Arizona State University, talks to Gregory Doran, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, about the new book she has edited, The...
I Understand Thee Well (2018 Audio)
aka: Episode 106
- Series
- Shakespeare Unlimited
- Producer
- Esther French; Garland Scott
Ayanna Thompson, director of the Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University, discusses the work of director Peter Sellars. She and Sellars are both interviewed by Barbara...
"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...
H4 (2014 Film)
- Director
- Paul Quinn
- Producer
- Art Olmos; Mark Schwartz; Abina Dodeva; Danny Green; Gil Bindelglas; Heather Ankeny
Independent feature which translates the Henry IV plays to contemporary Los Angeles to explore political struggles in the black community. Harry Lennix is King Henry.
"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...