Trevor Boffone and Carla Della Gatta’s new book, Shakespeare and Latinidad

In this film Trevor Boffone and Carla Della Gatta tell us about their new book, Shakespeare and Latinidad, which they hope will be ‘of value to anyone wanting to make culturally-relevant Shakespeare’ productions. The book contains 25 essays by both theatre scholars and practitioners and celebrates the more than 130 Latinx productions of Shakespeare taking place since 1969.

Trevor and Carla emphasise the importance of co-creation between art and knowledge, practitioners and scholars, and exploring new ways for theatres to create self-documentation and archiving practices. Both literature and theatre are made by ‘living and breathing real people’, they tell us, and they stress the need to ground ourselves in the orality, sound, noise and silences of creative work.