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What has Shakespeare got to do with Africa?

This is explored by the play "I speak of me as I am. A Necessary Intervention”. Staged will be Shakespeare’s powerful Black characters Othello, Caliban and Cleopatra, featuring their battles for love, freedom and against racist hatred and colonial abuse. Their original monologues will be remixed with Shakespeare's sonnets that praise the Black enslaved woman known as Lucy. It was her stories from Nigeria and Ghana that inspired Shakespeare' work.

The play also deals with why all of this is relevant till date. In doing so, the play entangles the experiences and fights of Shakespeare's characters with those of the actors and contemporaries of the Peaceliche Revolution of 1989 like Nina Hagen or May Ayim.

The play is performed in English and German and German and translated throughout by screen in either of the two languages.

Directed by: Cat Jugravu
Assistant director: Cat Jones
Dramaturgical: Aleo Arndt
Co-dramaturgin: Ife Aboluwade
Actors: Bishop Black, Roxie Thiele Dogan, Ruby Engel, Mehrdad Gharibian, Danya Harvey and Ann Catharine Krippner
Music: Andrei Raicu
Costumes : Kewe
Lighting design: Sol Sebastian Solorzano
Producer: Cluster of Excellence “Africa Multiple. Reconfiguring African Studies”
Co-Producer: QUEERDOS collective
Photos: Papa De

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