Shakespeare and Race

Throughout October, Shakespeare and Race: The Future We Make celebrates the creativity and innovation of artists, researchers and young people of the global majority. Through brand-new performances, scholarly talks and the announcement of the inaugural One Globe First Book Fellowship, the festival spotlights and supports a new generation of voices reshaping what Shakespeare means today.

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The Shakespeare and Race Festival was founded in 2018 to highlight conversations about race in Shakespeare’s plays and in his era. Its workshops, conversations, symposia and performances provide a platform to scholars, actors, writers, theatre-makers and educators of the global majority as well as allies. Each festival focuses on a different theme. Past festivals have explored teaching, reckoning with our past, poetics and performance.

 

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