The Othello Project is created by English Touring Theatre with support from Amal, a Said Foundation project. Award-winning London-based journalist, public speaker and educator Abdul-Rehman Malik hosts.

Each week we’ll be responding to Richard Twyman’s production of Othello running at Wiltons Music Hall, from 16th May- 3rd June. This week’s episode is titled Othello for Our Times where we’ll be talking to Richard Twyman, Artistic Director of English Touring Theatre, and director of Othello and Jerry Brotton, professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary University & author of This Orient Isle.

The music used is Dowager by Anna Meredith, from the album Varmints. This is available on Spotify & iTunes now.

With the contemporary world being the troubled, complicated, messy place it is – difficult enough for us to wrap our conscious minds around – we want to interrogate the ugly underbelly of what haunts our unconscious minds.

F**ked Up Bedtime Stories (for Adults) consists of 7 stories from 7 writers, read by leading actors and put out as a podcast and listened to by audiences right before bedtime, all exorcising different and unique horrors from our world and from our lives.

Commissioned and Produced by ETT

Hold Me Back. Inspired by Michaela Coel’s daring and heart wrenching ‘I May Destroy You’. 10 exciting poets writing today respond to 10 themes from the series. Curated by Rakaya Fetuga and Muneera Pilgrim, supported by English Touring Theatre. 10 poets. 10 videos. 5 days.

A podcast spotlighting the off-stage, behind the curtains roles that are the backbone of theatre.

Behind the Curtains – co-produced by writer, producer and theatremaker Siana Bangura alongside co-host, writer and theatre critic Christina Nicole, in partnership with English Touring Theatre – is a podcast spotlighting the off-stage, behind the curtains roles that are the backbone of theatre. How are writers, directors, sound designers, producers, production managers, movement directors and voice and dialect coaches weathering the storms of uncertainty? How did they get to where they are now? What pearls of wisdom do they have for their peers in the industry and those still looking to enter it? What’s race got to do with it? And how do we stay inspired and motivated through the thick and through the thin? Tune in for answers to all of these questions and more!

Hosted by Remona Aly, Desiree Burch, Sophie Duker, Terry Gilliam, Nish Kumar and Chris McCausland, That Podcast features more than 100 writers, comedians, spoken word artists, scientists, journalists, musicians, and people from all walks of life, who tell tales of the extraordinary and the everyday, in an attempt to make sense of the world we now find ourselves living in.

That Podcast is a Storyglass and ETT co-production.

Phoenix is an audio drama, written in rapid response to the present moment, by Mike Bartlett and read by Bertie Carvel, Olivier Award winners, who previously collaborated on the BBC’s Doctor Foster. Sound design by Ben & Max Ringham.

The production is part of Signal Fires, a project conceived by ETT and Headlong to bring together over forty of the UK’s leading touring companies to tour an idea at a time when traditional touring isn’t possible.

As England enters its second lockdown, here’s a story that lays bare the destructive nature of ego and imagines how we came to be here. Phoenix is a story about fire and destruction; about self-deceit and the corrosion of trust; about interrogating the tension between our collective responsibility and individual desires.

Our plans to gather live audiences around fires for evenings of storytelling have had to be postponed due to national Coronavirus restrictions so here’s a story for our times to enjoy at home.

Be advised: Strong Language

Phoenix is also available to listen to via Spotify and iTunes.

TRANSCRIPT

Poet Rakaya Esime Fetuga (2018 Roundhouse Poetry Slam Winner and one quarter of Nana Collective)was commissioned by ETT and Amal to write a response piece to Othello as part of The Othello Project.

The Othello Project is created by English Touring Theatre and is kindly supported by Amal (a programme of the Saïd Foundation)