About the Show

What if William Shakespeare had never written Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear and all his other later masterpieces? In 1596 Shakespeare had a creative crisis. Broke and bedeviled by self-doubt, he was unable to write the "Henry IV" play commissioned by the Lord Chamberlain. The question of whether "to be or not to be" hung by a thread – until Shakespeare met one of London’s first African slaves – who changed his life.

Shakespeare’s Slave runs in repertory with H4

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