SHAKESPEARE

Othello was My Grandfather: Shakespeare in the African Diaspora (2016 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare’s Birthday Lecture

Podcast. Shakespeare’s Birthday Lecture delivered at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Elizabethan Theatre by Kim F. Hall. This lecture discusses Afrodiasporic appropriations of Othello.

Living Shakespeare (2016 Film, Video)

Producer

Jonathan Wells

Living Shakespeare is a collection of filmed essays commissioned by the British Council as part of the Shakespeare Lives project which celebrates Shakespeare’s influence on culture, language, education and...

Performing Othello: Adrian Lester, Hugh Quarshie and Janet Suzman (2016 Audio)

Sound recording. A panel of Shakespearean actors discuss ‘Othello’. Adrian Lester, Hugh Quarshie and Janet Suzman in conversation with theatre critic and academic Kate Bassett.

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...

If It Be Love (2015 Film)

Director

Filip L. Firlej

Producer

Alice Bird; Vinta Morgan; Neve Faulkner

Low-budget independent film. Inspired by Shakespeare’s classic texts, the film weaves together four portraits of varying and contrasting faces of love - the passion of Antony and Cleopatra, the tragic...

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.

Othello (2014 Audio)

Series

Folger Shakespeare Library

Director

Robert Richmond

A fully dramatised and unabridged studio recording from the Folger Theatre with Owiso Odera in the title role.

Iaga (2014 Film)

Director

Dustin Dunaway

Independent fantasy feature film. IAGA is a gender-reversed version of Othello retold in the style of a live-action graphic novel. Iaga secretly exposes the marriage between Desdemona and Othella, but when...

Otello (2014 Radio)

Series

Opera on 3

Director

David Alden

Live from the English National Opera. The ENO opera and Chorus is conducted by Edward Gardner. The production is directed by David Alden and presented by Martin Handley. Stuart Skelton sings the title role.

David Harewood (2014 Television)

aka: Shakespeare Uncovered

Series

My Shakespeare

Producer

Richard Denton

Series in which an actor explores a work by Shakespeare, revealing a personal connection to the work and how it has shaped them professionally. They investigate how their chosen play was written, as well as...