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RSC postpones Othello while leading actor Sharon D Clarke has cancer treatment

Radical reimagining of Shakespeare play was due to run at Swan theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon from 13 February to 3 April 2027

The Guardian - UK · Aug 13

Award-winning BBC star shares cancer diagnosis as stage performances postponed

Actor had been due to play Othello in 2027 Stratford-upon-Avon production

The Independent UK · Aug 13

Othello starring Sharon D Clarke postponed due to her cancer treatment

The show had been scheduled to run next year from February 13 until April 3.

Evening Standard · Aug 13

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Star hopes audience will be ‘transformed’ by black lesbian adaption of Othello

Sharon D Clarke has been cast in the title role in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Shakespeare’s tragedy.

Evening Standard · Jul 1

Jaja’s African Hair Braiding review – crowd-pleasing energy, charisma and expert comic timing

Jocelyn Bioh’s comedy – following a day in the life of a Harlem braiding salon – is filled with humour and hijinks

The Guardian - UK · Mar 29

Twists in the tale: Jaja’s African Hair Braiding explores immigrant experience through a day at the salon

As Jocelyn Bioh’s play about life in a Harlem hairdresser’s gets a London run, she and director Monique Touko explain why its story of west Africans styling themselves for life in the US will resonate across the Atlantic

The Guardian - UK · Mar 4

Did the liberation of Africa start in Manchester? The biting play about a pivotal, forgotten moment

It was a turning point in the push for African independence – and it took place in Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall. We meet the writer of a play about the fifth Pan-African Congress

The Guardian - UK · Jun 17, 2025

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The week in theatre: A Child of Science; Wedding Band; No Love Songs – review

The moving story of the invention of IVF gives space to the women affected; Alice Childress’s 60s interracial romance proves relevant still; but a musical about unplanned parenthood can’t find the drama

The Guardian - UK · Jun 16, 2024

Wedding Band at Lyric Hammersmith review: remarkable '60s revival leaps through time to grab you by the throat

It’s an exhilarating find, blending politics, prejudice, social realism, melodrama and romance – all brought to life in a swaggering production

Evening Standard · Jun 7, 2024

School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play at Lyric Hammersmith review: that’s so fetch

Bioh’s dialogue fizzes with both laugh-out-loud quips and savage insults

Evening Standard · Jun 15, 2023

Gone Too Far! review – Bola Agbaje’s drama pumped with vitality by young cast

Crackling humour and punchy direction energise the story of two brothers battling over whose way is the right way on their Peckham estate

The Guardian - UK · Mar 29, 2023

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