Category: Resources

Resource: Race in MND (Podcast)

Shakespeare: Love Across the Racial Divide [Podcast, 15 min.]– Short podcast from the BBC in which host Yasmin Alibhai-Brown explores MND through the lens of race. The episode focuses on love in the human and fairy worlds, touches on the plays historical context and how the play has been adapted abroad recently.

This is a great podcast that’s good if you’re interested in the relationship between Oberon and Titania, the exoticism of the Indian boy, and the relationship between Titania and Bottom.

Resource: Shaping Rice’s MND (Podcast)

If you watched the Emma Rice production of MND and have lots of questions, you might be interested in this 30 min. podcast. Tanika Gupta, the script editor and Emma Rice’s collaborator, is interviewed about many of the changes that they made to the script. It’s a fascinating listen and will definitely make you think differently about the choices that were made behind the scenes.

TANIKA GUPTA ON RESHAPING THE GLOBE’S A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM