Shakespeare Hour LIVE! Episode 20: The Past Uncovered: Shakespeare, Black Actors, and Whiteness

Drew Lichtenberg is joined by LeeAnét Noble, STC’s Director of Equity and Enrichment and co-director of the STC Virtual Gala, as they explore the stories of Ira Aldridge and other foundational Black Shakespearean actors, and their struggles in being accepted as equal members of the classical community. This episode will focus on Shakespearean and theatrical historiography and on its implicit biases in constructing a version of Shakespeare that does not live up to the inclusive and humanistic impulses of his own drama.

Guests: Dr. David Sterling Brown (Assistant Professor of English, Binghamton University; scholar of Shakespeare and premodern critical race studies; Executive Board member of the Race Before Race conference series); Carl Cofield (Associate Artistic Director, Classical Theatre of Harlem; Director, CTH’s THE TEMPEST, MACBETH); and Dr. Soyica Colbert (Vice Dean of Faculty and Idol Family Professor of the College of Arts and Sciences, Georgetown University; STC Associate Director–Literary)

Episode 20 of Shakespeare Hour LIVE! is generously sponsored by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

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