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White’s script weaves the language of Shakespeare’s bloody tragedy together with contemporary comments…to call out how a story can shift depending on the teller.

“Macbeth In Stride” is equal parts concert and play. “I always want my plays to feel like concerts,” Whitney White said.

Not only is music a way to bring a unique feeling to each character, but White sees it also as a way to welcome populations of all kinds into the Shakespearean stage.

An interview with Macbeth In Stride creator and performer Whitney White.

In residence at Radcliffe as the 2019–2020 Frances B. Cashin Fellow, Casel worked on Diary of a Tap Dancer, a theatrical work positioning tap dance as its driving narrative force.

Ayodele Casel’s work encourages us to engage with the history of tap and with the ways in which the art form has always communicated resistance to oppression.