The Othello Papers*
Directed by: L. Peter CallenderPlaywright: Robert Henry Johnson
February 8th - 10th, 2008
Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm; Sundays at 3pm
Buriel Clay Theatre
762 Fulton Street
(cross at Webster)
San Francisco, CA
complimentary Parking on-site
Othello, tired of being the only black person in his “literary world”,
invites other Black Shakespeare characters to discuss “issues and challenges” of
how they are and have been portrayed to the world. Othello begins the First
Annual Convention for Black Shakespearean Characters. His guests include
Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt; Aaron the Moor; the Prince of Morocco; and Caliban.
The characters meet and chaos ensues. Caliban, feeling disrespected by Othello,
boycotts the convention because he has been delegated to the role of servitude.
Othello is trying to contact other black Shakespearean characters via cell phone
but his search is continuously interrupted by the disappearance and
reappearances of Desdemona’s handkerchief. When an uninvited guest
appears, he brings order to the convention, and the characters are challenged to
unite and write their own play—a play where the black Shakespearean community
presents to the world an excavation of their ancestry and global contribution to
the planet.
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