Promotional material for Liz White's presentation of Othello: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Photocopied collage flier for Liz White's version of Shakespeare's "Othello" consisting of a single sheet folded vertically. The first page features a large photograph of Liz White with text in the bottom left corner [Liz White / her first film / OTHELLO]. The middle pages feature a collage of photographs and text about the Shearer Summer Theater. The back cover features a large photograph of Yaphet Kotto, with smaller photographs of him to the left and text at top left reads [Yaphet Kotto / his first film / OTHELLO].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1980
• Created by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Elizabeth Shearer White, American, died 1993
• Subject of: Yaphet Kotto, American, born 1939
• Type: portraits
• Type: handbills
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 9 x 7 in. (22.9 x 17.8 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Theatre companies
• Object number: 2012.33.2
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Olive Tomlinson in memory of William and Olive Bowles
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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