By Cal
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1dwrpaacSg&feature=youtu.be
Available until: Friday 15th
January 7pm EST (Saturday 16th January 1am in the UK)
Content warning: Contains themes of racism,
the use of racial slurs – the N-word.
Red Bull Theater’s productions
premiere in the middle of the night for UK viewers and they’re only available
for a few days, but they really are worth a watch. They find so many
interesting plays which I’ve never heard of and they always have something
really relevant to say. The African Company Presents Richard III is set
in 1821 and was premiered in 1988 (though this production is of the significant
1992 rewrite, in which a major character was removed from the play). In many ways,
attitudes have moved on and it’s a good thing, but other things haven’t
changed, at least not as much as we’d have liked them to and one way of showing
that is to put it into a work of fiction and let us see it for ourselves. The
play might be fiction, but there’s a lot of truth in fiction if you’re prepared
to look for it. Far too much of this play rings true.
