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64 results found for '"Black actors"' in Keywords.
Edric Connor (1998 Television)
- Series
- Black Firsts
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.
Play on! (1997 Video)
- Director
- Sheldon Epps; Richard Stucker
Twelfth Night, with an all African-American cast, is transformed into a romantic fable set in 1940s Harlem using Duke Ellington songs as its score. The play was directed for stage by Sheldon Epps and for...
Othello (1997 Video)
- Director
- Jude Kelly
A video recording of Jude Kelly’s 1997 production of Othello for the Shakespeare Theatre Company. Patrick Stewart, playing Othello, is the only white actor in an otherwise all Afro-American cast.
Akogun (1997 Video)
- Director
- Kayode Orisayomi
- Producer
- Rufus Orisayomi
A video recording of a play by Rufus Orisayomi, Artistic Director of Ritual Theatre Arts. An adaptation of Macbeth, in Pidgin English, set in 15th-century Yorubaland, Nigeria. The production incorporates...
Umabatha (1997 Video)
- Director
- Welcome Msomi
A Zulu version of Macbeth incorporating music and dance. ‘Shakespeare’s Macbeth was chosen by Welcome Msomi as perfect source material on which to base a Zulu adaptation, as it seemed ‘almost a carbon...
Shakespeare in Sable: History of the Black Shakespearean Actor (1996 Video)
A talk by Professor Errol Hill based on his book of the same title (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1984). The book charts the struggle of Afro-American actors, first as exiles, then in the...
Titus Andronicus (1995 Video)
- Director
- Gregory Doran
Video recording made at the Market Theatre Johannesburg of a production of Titus Andronicus directed by Gregory Doran with Antony Sher as Titus.
King Lear (1994 Video)
- Director
- Yvonne Brewster
Video recording, using three cameras, of a performance of King Lear by the Talawa Theatre Company at the Cochrane Theatre, London. Ben Thomas is Lear.
King Lear (1994 Video)
- Director
- Yvonne Brewster
Video recording using a single camera (wide shot) of a rehearsal for a production of King Lear by the Talawa Theatre Company at the Cochrane Theatre, London. Ben Thomas is Lear.
Othello (1990 Film)
- Director
- Ted Lange
- Producer
- Katherine A. Kaspar
Feature film version of Othello. The production focuses strongly on the intraracial hatred, a concept seen in casting choices and textual cuts. Afro-Americans play Othello, Emilia and Iago.