BBA Shakespeare

Lovely coverage for the unveiling of Ira Aldridge's plaque! elementarywhatson.com/single-post/20…

Blog by @publicradionerd from her research, started at Warwick as part of the Multicultural Shakespeare project. Pioneers and the Shakespearean glass ceiling shakespearesglobe.com/discover/blogs… via @The_Globe

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@BBAShakespeare Soliloquy Slam Workshops 1, 8, 15 and 22 December 7pm Bring renewed fire and fun to your favourite soliloquy. Through play, sensory exploration & imagination - 4 one-hour workshops led by actress Ruby Campbell. trybooking.com/uk/events/land…

@BBAShakespeare Twelfth Night Read-a-Long 4, 11 and 18 December 2.30pm UK time Join us for three 90-minute sessions as we read and discuss another masterpiece. Celebrate the end of the week with Shakespeare’s bittersweet comedy. trybooking.com/uk/events/land…

#CultureNeedsDiversity Yellow Earth Actors Academy 2019

100% endorse. Bonus appearance by @ProfKFH. Director Saheem Ali Explains Why Shakespeare Is For Everyone wnyc.org/story/director… via @WNYC

@EarlyModernDoc They are!

@BBAShakespeare Some of the responses on the thread are pure gold 😂😂😂

This is a good game....

Earl Cameron with his birthday cake for his 100th birthday. In 2017, he unveiled the plaque celebrating Ira Aldridge as the first black person to run a theatre building. In Coventry. @BBAShakespeare. RIP.

Rest in power #EarlCameron got to hear him thanks @Warwickuni @BBAShakespeare @The_Globe #Prof.TonyHoward event to celebrate #IraAldridge

@publicradionerd Just discovered the @BBAShakespeare site. What a brilliant resource. Will certainly help me with my research. Many thanks for creating it.

Casting of Shakespeare's lovers for the book, found a photo of @tanyamoodie's Rosalind & her Orlando, Terence Maynard. What's different? This is the only Rosalind & Orlando that isn't a multi-racial couple in mainstream theatre in Britain (except Dash Arts) @BBAShakespeare

Shakespeare Race & Gender in Week 4. We’ll be discussing @ProfKFH‘s work & using the @BBAShakespeare database to research UK theatre industry, Shakespeare, race & gender. We’ll also be looking at @tonderaimunyevu’s play #TheMoors. What a week!

Kemi-Bo Jacobs becomes only the second woman of colour to play Hermione. The last time, you ask? 1985. Shope Shodinde in a London pub (now @theatre503) bbashakespeare.warwick.ac.uk/roles/play/The… @BBAShakespeare

I really think they could've found something a bit more dignified. They could easily have nicked this photo of him as Gower in Pericles at the RSC in 1989. You wouldn't treat the white honorees with a photo like that "comic" pose, @RoyalCentral.

Just heard we lost a giant of black British theatre, TV n film. Malcolm Fredrick, rest in power. U inspired a generation with ur art, wit n spirit.2 unforgettable wisdoms spoken 2 me ‘Don’t b fooled by the illusion of inclusion’. ‘Beware, we have trespassed into a strangers dream

@BBAShakespeare ...That bias is loud and clear here. The productions are: Hull Truck in 1990 & two NT education productions in 2007 & 2013-14 (along with its 2014 revival) - so nowhere near its main stages, and the latter with an all-Asian cast. bbashakespeare.warwick.ac.uk/plays/romeo-an…

This picture of both Romeo and Juliet as white actors led me down a rabbit hole. There are 93 productions in the @BBAShakespeare. Only TWP of them have had BOTH a non-white Romeo and a non-white Juliet. The bias against seeing African-Caribbeans or Asians in love...