EXCLUSIVE: Giles Terera (Death of England: Face to Face), winner of an Olivier award for his portrayal of Aaron Burr in the London transfer of Broadway hit Hamilton, will star in a history-making p…
American-born Shakespearean scholar Dr. Jami Rogers hailed the decision to allow an African-Caribbean director to handle the play as “a major milestone in the history of British Shakespeare.”
The theater artist suggested Nunn’s and other productions “are all falling prey to the same sub conscious and conscious biases that mean it’s not [racism] at the top of their agenda. I suffer racism everyday so it’s obviously at the top of my agenda. This is obviously special to me. The only thing I’m trying to do is to spark a conversation so we can move forward from those conversations, not backwards.
Over the years, Dyer said, he’s often been troubled by the world in which other directors have set their productions of “whereby this black man gets to this position leading a Venetian army and everybody’s cool about it.” Othello, too, is a prominent person and Terera needed to study him from a black perspective, way different from the white viewpoint he was taught in school and via prior productions.
The play begins with Iago and another character trying to ruffle feathers by claiming to Desdemona’s father that the Moor has stolen his daughter, which is untrue. Iago fails to get that point across “so Iago introduces racism,” explained Terera.
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