Ex-prisoner's remixed Othello targets new audiences
Hip-hop, grime and urban violence take centre stage in a new production of the Shakespeare tragedyModern street slang, words such as fam, peng, fleek and hench, should be dropped into Shakespearean dialogue, says the creator of an updated version of Othello set in the world of knife crime and urban violence. Darren Raymond believes that, just as Shakespeare once played with words and adapted the vernacular, so Britai…