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- Title
Othello at the Market Theatre.
- Authors
SEEFF, ADELE
- Abstract
The article examines Janet Suzman's casting of John Kani as the first black South African actor to play the lead role in the 1987 production of Shakespearean play "Othello" at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, South Africa. It explores the timing and the process of establishing a production's meaning when race is explicitly performed and when actors, directors, theatre critics and theatre historians employed competing discourses. It also assesses what is truly radical about Suzman's "Othello."
- Subjects
JOHANNESBURG (South Africa); SOUTH Africa; CASTING of plays; SUZMAN, Janet; KANI, John; BLACK actors; DRAMATIC works of William Shakespeare; OTHELLO (Play : Shakespeare)
- Publication
Shakespeare Bulletin, 2009, Vol 27, Issue 3, p377
- ISSN
0748-2558
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/shb.0.0107