James Baldwin and Britain

Baldwin's writing used in a 'radical styling of a Shakespeare play' by Charles Marowitz

Source: London Evening Standard

April 25, 1972 (page 11 of 44).

‘London News’ by Michael Owen

Brief article on appearance of actor Judy Geeson as Desdemona ‘in an experimental version of Othello at the Open Space Theatre’. Owen writes that the play will be directed by Charles Marowitz as a “collage” and ‘will be his third radical styling of a Shakespeare play’ featuring the writings of ‘leading black American militants including Stokely Carmichael, Angela Davis and James Baldwin’.