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The Six-Foot-Seven Prisoner Who Staged The First All-Black Shakespeare

THEATRE Posted: February 12, 2019 8:04 am

Richard Crafus, aka “King Dick”, was shipped off to a prison in southwestern England as an enemy combatant during the War of 1812. The biggest and strongest man in a segregated wing of the jail, he ran everything there — including a prisoners’ theatre, where he staged Romeo and Juliet and Othello. – The Stage

THEATRE Published: 02.08.19

Read the story in The Stage Published: 02.08.19

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