BBA Shakespeare

Documenting BAME actors, directors, practitioners of Shakespeare, their roles and productions. Get in touch with us at [email protected]

[BBA Shakespeare @BBAShakespeare]

Lovely coverage for the unveiling of Ira Aldridge's plaque! https://t.co/nbxB4rPuXU

[BBA Shakespeare @BBAShakespeare]

Blog by @publicradionerd from her research, started at Warwick as part of the Multicultural Shakespeare project.

Pioneers and the Shakespearean glass ceiling https://t.co/vAd3mgA6M3 via @The_Globe

[Lazarus Theatre Company @LazarusTheatre]

@BBAShakespeare https://t.co/Gie6h2wphL

[The Chronicle Theatre Company @Shakespeare_IT]

@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.
https://t.co/kDqX97QBKo

[The Chronicle Theatre Company @Shakespeare_IT]

@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.

https://t.co/5y1tBi8AaX

[BBA Shakespeare @BBAShakespeare]

Blog by @publicradionerd from her research, started at Warwick as part of the Multicultural Shakespeare project.

Pioneers and the Shakespearean glass ceiling https://t.co/vAd3mgA6M3 via @The_Globe

[New Earth Theatre @NewEarthTheatre]

#CultureNeedsDiversity

Yellow Earth Actors Academy 2019

[Dr. Jami Rogers 🇺🇦 @publicradionerd]

100% endorse. Bonus appearance by @ProfKFH.

Director Saheem Ali Explains Why Shakespeare Is For Everyone https://t.co/ERCFzwnfIB via @WNYC

[BBA Shakespeare @BBAShakespeare]

@EarlyModernDoc They are!

[BBA Shakespeare @BBAShakespeare]

This is a good game....

[Dr Varsha Panjwani @EarlyModernDoc]

To get in on the trend...describe your favourite Shakespeare play in the most boring way possible...

[Dr. Jami Rogers 🇺🇦 @publicradionerd]

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.

[Sudha Bhuchar @BhucharBvrd]

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

[Dr Andrea Smith @AudioAndrea]

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

[Dr. Jami Rogers 🇺🇦 @publicradionerd]

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

[Shax After Shax @ShaxAfterShax]

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!

[Dr. Jami Rogers 🇺🇦 @publicradionerd]

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) https://t.co/EisnQL2T5X @BBAShakespeare

[Dr. Jami Rogers 🇺🇦 @publicradionerd]

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.

[Kwame Kwei-Armah @kwamekweiarmah]

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

[Dr. Jami Rogers 🇺🇦 @publicradionerd]

@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.

https://t.co/wa3K9P28ro

[Dr. Jami Rogers 🇺🇦 @publicradionerd]

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...