Patrick Carnegy

Black and white magic

The Tempest<br /> Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon Othello<br /> Hackney Empire

issue 28 February 2009

The Tempest
Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon

Othello
Hackney Empire

No accident, one guesses, that the RSC comes good in the new year with two of Shakespeare’s most racially sensitive plays in touring productions that, happily, are at once bold and deeply rewarding.

‘A Tempest roars out of Africa’, trumpeted the Telegraph’s headline to a preview of a production hailing from Cape Town’s famous Baxter Theatre.

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