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'I'm not saying Shakespeare is an anti-black racist. But …' " the festival tackling an incendiary issue by Arifa Akbar

They have suffered vicious abuse and ugly trolling, but the team behind the Globe's Shakespeare and Race festival tell our writer why their work feels more urgent than ever When Farah Karim-Cooper first went to her bosses at Shakespeare's Globe with the idea of staging a festival about Shakespeare and race, she got the distinct feeling that it was not regarded as urgent subject matter. In the intervening four years, …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:19AM on October 27, 2022

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