A powerful monologue play that examines the experience and perspective of black men in America through the lens of Shakespeare's character Othello.
Keith Hamilton Cobb has spent the majority of his working
life on stage and is readily recognized on the streets of New York
for several unique character portrayals in television.
He is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in
acting, whose regional theatre credits include such prestigious
venues as The Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Shakespeare Theatre
of Washington DC, The Denver Theatre Center, The Huntington Theatre
Company, The Orlando Shakespeare Festival, The Geva Theatre Center
and many others. He has performed such classical roles as Laertes
in Hamlet, Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet, Tullus Aufidius in
Coriolanus, Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as well as more
contemporary roles in David Mamet’s Race, August Wilson’s Jitney,
and Lynn Nottage’s Ruined to name but a few.
Spellbinding….a Must See! …. Anyone who covers it for a living has
to believe that theater is among the necessities of existence.
Otherwise, why bother? There are plenty of other ways to fill the
nights and weekends. But some plays, and some performances, take
the idea of necessary to a deeper level. In those rare cases, the
critic’s adjectival exhortation “must-see’’ can almost border on
the literal. “American Moor’’ is one such play and one such
performance.
*Boston Globe*
After American Moor, you may not see Shakespeare — and a lot of
roles played by black actors — quite the same way.
*Washington Post*
I have spent my life thinking about Shakespeare, but that did not
prepare me for the depth of thinking and feeling that this play
provokes.
*Michael Witmore, Director, The Folger Shakespeare Library*
A witty, passionate, furious, and movingly intimate record of an
African-American actor’s often unrequited love for Shakespeare.
*New York Review of Books*
Shakespeare’s plays have long been revised, reimagined, and retold
to speak to a particular historical situation and purpose,
including anti-racist activism … American Moor embodies this
innovative spirit, resonating powerfully for the twenty-first
century.
*Shakespeare*
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