RSC casts Sharon D Clarke as black lesbian Othello in reimagining of play

The Royal Shakespeare Company has cast three-time Olivier Award winner Sharon D Clarke as Othello in a daring futuristic reimagining. Clarke will play a black lesbian general married to a younger Desdemona. According to The Guardian World, this production examines the four-hundred-year-old tragedy through an urgent new lens of misogynoir—the specific intersection of racism and sexism faced by black women. By repositioning the protagonist's identity, the RSC effectively rewrites the entire tragic machinery of the play.

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