Dear Mister Shakespeare – inspired by OthelloPosted in Arts, Media Archive, United Kingdom, Videos on 2016-10-16 16:01Z by Steven |
Dear Mister Shakespeare – inspired by Othello
British Council
2016-10-07
Multimedia visual artist Phoebe Boswell has written an original piece, ‘Dear Mister Shakespeare’, in which she questions Shakespeare on the inherent racial tensions within his writing of Othello in the 1600s, and how these tensions continue to resonate today.
The film, directed by Shola Amoo, is a collage of modern black British experience, and follows Othello’s (Ashley Thomas aka Bashy) journey as a ‘man through time’.