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Harlem Shakespeare Festival's All-Female OTHELLO at Southwest Shakespeare Company

September 29, 2018 10:00 PM

Harlem Shakespeare Festival's ALL-Female Othello at Southwest Shakespeare Company

Duration:
1m53s
Director:
Yasmine Lawler

In 2018, I was invited to the UK to document the travels of Debra-Ann Byrd and her All Female Cast of Shakespeare's Othello. So of course, I made the deal that I was comfortable with and accepted the offer. We toured New York City, multiple cities in Arizona, London, and of course Shakespeare's birthplace in Stratford Upon-Avon. The above video is of the theater performance at the Madison Center for Performing Arts in Phoenix, Arizona. You'll find a playlist of content we created while on tour, above.

Actresses Ella Loudon and ??? portraying Iago and Emilia at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West Theater in Scottsdale, Arizona
Debra Ann Byrd at the Folger Shakespeare Library

I want to remember this moment forever. So when you release the shutter know that I'm looking back with everything in me, being honest with my future self. You're welcome because I've already spoke my peace to the trees. I'm not proud of everything, I'm saying I'm being honest even when it's an uncomfortable situation. Can you see what's written all over my face?

Location: University in the U.K. Photo by Troi Hall at the direction of Law saying "Take It" during the creation of PhoneBooth Love

I decided to make an impromptu visual at this set staged house that Troi and I came across. I was just sitting in the middle of a field that as we walked through the semi foot paved paths on the way to see our friend Ella Loudon perform in a stage-play version of Cabaret. I called it TreeHouse Conversations, the ending leaves the door open. The video below is another, impromptu moment capture during this trip. PhoneBooth Love, is a play on capturing the moment before you're honest; the silent drive, the weary walk alone, the sounds of voices unknown.

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