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The Multicultural Shakespeare project's touring exhibition To Tell My Story has toured theatres, libraries, museums and schools all over the country since 2012. It contributed to two national online exhibitions which illustrate the achievements of Black and Asian Shakespeare.
'Would audiences walk out?': trailblazing British black and Asian Shakespeare
Guardian Online, March 12, 2015:
A new exhibition profiles landmark colour-blind and multicultural productions of Shakespeare starring actors including Paul Robeson, Josette Simon and Willard White. To Tell My Story, celebrating the achievements of British black and Asian actors, is on tour alongside Tara Arts’ production of Macbeth and from 22-30 April will be at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, as part of a festival of multicultural Shakespeare on screen.
Here, Professor Tony Howard from Warwick University, introduces some of the productions.
Colour-blind casting: The untold history of Black and Asian Shakespeare
BBC Arts Online, April 27, 2015: