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  • Bongs, Parental Shaming and Respecting the Work of the Bard (2023 Video)

    aka: Episode 31

    Series
    Cayacast

    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...

  • Way to Dusty Death, The: Shakespeare and Tomorrow (2023 Video)

    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...

  • Shakespeare: John Kani Tells All (2021 Video)

    Professor Michael Dobson (Shakespeare Institute) interviews actor John Kani about growing up in South Africa under apartheid, his career and his love of Shakespeare.

  • Lockdown Gamification: Teaching Shakespeare Using Digital Breakouts (2021 Video)

    Recording of an online presentation by Dr Candice Livingston of CPUT (Cape Peninsula University of Technology) on her use of game technology to teach Macbeth remotely under Covid-19 pandemic restrictions.

  • Shakespeare and Blackface (2019 Video)

    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...

  • U-Gugu No Andile (2009 Film)

    aka: Gugu & Andile Gugu and Andile

    Director
    Minky Schlesinger
    Producer
    Bridget Pickering; Neil Brandt

    Feature film directed by Minky Schlesinger derived from the 2008 television mini-series broadcast by SABC1 which sets the story of Romeo and Juliet during the faction fighting that brought the East Rand...

  • Entabeni (2008 Television)

    Series
    Shakespeare in Mzansi
    Director
    Norman Maake
    Producer
    Lineo Sekeleoane

    Six-part television drama which sets the story of Macbeth in present-day Johannesburg. It tells the story of the rise and fall of Kumkani (Skenjana) a fearless young prodigy in investment banking. When his...

  • U-Gugu No Andile (2008 Television)

    Series
    Shakespeare in Mzansi
    Director
    Minky Schlesinger
    Producer
    Bridget Pickering; Neil Brandt

    A mini-series which sets the story of Romeo and Juliet during the faction fighting that brought the East Rand township of Thokoza to international attention in 1993. A Xhosa boy finds a Zulu girl but their...

  • Death of a Queen (2008 Television)

    Series
    Shakespeare in Mzansi
    Director
    Pieter Grobbelaar

    A mini-series based on Macbeth in which the character of King Duncan is transformed into the Rain Queen, the sister of Macbeth (Prince Matlatladiane). When Prince Matlatladiane returns victorious with...

  • Izingane Zobaba (2008 Television)

    aka: Father’s Children

    Series
    Shakespeare in Mzansi
    Director
    Tim Greene
    Producer
    Portia Gumede

    Mini-series reworking King Lear and set in the lucrative coal distribution industry of Richards Bay. It depicts the lives of two families torn apart by jealousy, greed and deception and incorporates the...