Red Velvet

Not as well executed as I would have liked. Perhaps the constraints of the original staging did not allow for this, but I would have liked to actually see the political unrest outside of the theater that paralleled the dis-ease with the first black actor playing Othello inside of the theater. I had hoped to be able to teach this play in tandem with Othello in a course on Shakespeare and Adaptations (in which, for example, I would also pair The Merchant of Venice and Grace Tiffany's novel, The Turquoise Ring). I still might do that, and have the students research the political unrest referenced in the play in order to write their own "footnotes" regarding the socio-political context.