It was mostly we were like, we would rap like…. Since 2002, Gregory and Jeffery Ameen Qaiyum, better known as GQ and JAQ – the Q Brothers – have been using hip-hop to adapt and update the plays of William Shakespeare. I’ll tell you what I meant. Oh, I get it, like wherefore means why,” and then I’d just substitute in my head and I’d just fly through this, and it was fun. You just have to sit back and like let it wash over you and trust that you’ll understand it. Answer me. I’m a big fan of Kafka, and then someone brought up Dickens, and then one of the guys, Red Dragon, he shouted out Shakespeare, and…. BOGAEV: I want to play some of your rap, too, and we have some clips. And, you know, now that I say that out loud, like translating Shakespeare…. Othello: The Remix Good storytellers borrow, great ones steal. a hip-hop adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Othello written, directed and composed by … It was edited by Gail Kern Paster and Esther Ferington. Following acclaimed international tours and previous sold-out engagements in Chicago, the CST-commissioned hip-hop adaptation is spun out and lyrically rewritten over original beats. Can you do some of that right now? Registered Charity No 225751. BOGAEV: You know, it’s great. Those consonants and those vowel sounds tell you that, you know? JAQ: I mean there’s also like, when you come to our show and there’s, you know, Desdemona has moments after she’s dead, where she keeps talking—we make jokes about that. I went to see the Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s production of Othello: The Remix on May 5.The Q Brothers are known for their hip-hop interpretations of Shakespeare’s work—their best-known piece is probably The Bomb-itty of Errors.They managed to create an effective and entertaining adaptation of Othello, hitting most of the major plot points in seventy-five minutes. Garland Scott is the associate producer. Hopefully Othello: The Remix will be performing off again in 2022. This is the song that introduces us to Othello. You only went with Shakespeare because you ran out of time on another concept, right? Shakespeare Unlimited comes to you from the Folger Shakespeare Library. GQ: It was from doing it, it was from doing it. Our reference librarians can help you! Written, directed and music by GQ and JQ; Developed with Rick Boynton; Good storytellers borrow, great ones steal. JAQ: No it wasn’t, and actually, I was in my first Shakespeare…. You lay on the ground, and you’re in the dark, and your eyes are closed, and then you’re talked through some sort of meditation, and you choose an animal that your character would be, and you let that impulse come out physically. "Othello: The Remix" has a unique spin on a classic Shakespeare production. and J.Q. Othello: The Remix. You can find more about the Folger at our website, folger.edu. JAQ: But it was just like ‘cause this girl I liked was there. Previous: Uncovering Shakespeare's House | Next: Shakespeare in California. I mean for us we had to dig for hip-hop and find other people that liked it, and copied tapes, and it was counterculture, and it’s not any more. That’s— the best rappers we grew up to, were master storytellers who used poetry and musical language. [CLIP from the Q Brothers’ Othello: The Remix:]. An 80-minute, high-energy spin on Bardian tragedy. John Leguizamo presents the Q Brothers’ 80-minute, exuberant spin on Shakespeare’s tragic tale. BOGAEV: And do we ever, though, hear any of Shakespeare’s actual lines or poetry in your shows? And, you know, it was like, it’s something in hip-hop, you’re like, “Oh yeah, that’s my boy, that’s my boy,” or like, “Are you and your boys going to be there?” And it just kind of like struck me as like, “What does that really mean, and how are we now not boys, and how are we still boys like when we were ten years old and playing on a playground, and why gangs form,” you know? At the time we recorded this podcast, they were back New York with Othello: The Remix. BOGAEV: And now you’ve been invited to write shows at a number of colleges, so how did that happen? GQ: The original concept was just to mix hip-hop and theater. JAQ: Yeah, it was more like ‘80s. What was the original idea or inspiration for your first show, which was The Bomb-itty of Errors? Our building on Capitol Hill is closed due to a major building renovation project, but Folger events and programs continue online. Is the DJ orchestrating these loops and spinning records, or what? Well actually, J did some theater early. “Othello: The Remix turns out to by far the best the work the Bros. Q have done (and I've seen 'em all). BOGAEV: Well I really loved talking with you, and I really wish you a great run. JAQ: Yeah. “Something Then In Rhyme” was produced by Richard Paul. Commissioned by Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London and Chicago Shakespeare Theater. JAQ: Well, we were doing all these voices, and like looking back like we like had characters and improv-ing. Othello: The Remix performed Their last show in 2021 on February 22nd in Lexington. WITMORE: Puccini and Rossini told stories that way, too. At the Westside Theatre in New York City, audiences are watching "Othello: the Remix," a retelling of William Shakespeare's classic play that transforms the protagonist into a rising hip-hop star. Become a teacher member to get access to lesson plans and professional development. I never knew my popsMom was a junkieRaised in the streets with the streetsWith the beats that are funkyConcrete and metalA child of the ghettoLookin’ for the loot,But there was none for Othello. Dmae talks with Vin Shambry, a nationally recognized actor, director, singer and storyteller. WITMORE: From the Folger Shakespeare Library, this is Shakespeare Unlimited. And we were really sports driven, and got into, you know, theater, like my senior year in high school when I quit the lacrosse team. Lyrically re-written over original beats, The Q Brothers return to the UK with their fresh take on the powerful tale of betrayal, jealousy and self-doubt. There is a lot of stuff in there for the Shakespeare heads that know the script, because it’s a true retelling, but we’re also spoofing it a little bit, and so there’s some extra fun there if you have intimate knowledge of the original. SIgn up to keep up to date with out latest news and announcements. BOGAEV: Well how did you both then end up in theater? Esther French is the web producer. GQ: Well, exactly, so I think one great thing… I mean there’s probably many great things about it. You know, I was at the Experimental Theater Wing at Tisch School of The Arts at NYU, and I was very much inspired by hip-hop and theater at the time, and the initial… it was a final project for me, like an independent project, and the idea was to mix hip-hop and theater with the theme of what it means to be a boy, because I asked three of my guy friends to write it with me, and we were all rapping on the streets in New York, but we were in conservatory training at the same time. Did you rap together as kids too? Registered in England and Wales at above address No 4001287. At the time we recorded this— in 2017— their show Othello: The Remix was running off-Broadway at the Westside Theater. It’s really funny. It’s very much like a verbal dance. GQ: I think that’s like he was physically based writing, and more physically based acting his words, and his stuff wasn’t ever meant to be read. Final Performance 1/15! It was previous to actually translating it where I felt like Shakespeare was music. And over the course of two hours, you get to actually vocalize those lines, and you find out that certain vowel sounds that he used evoke certain emotions, certain consonants inform, you know, how evil a character is or not. BOGAEV: Wow, that sounds really intricate. And, you know, do you still only need one good notice in The New York Times to bring out a decent crowd? For the Folger Shakespeare Library, I’m Folger Director Michael Witmore. JAQ: I always loved it. We grew up listening, and loving, and performing hip-hop all the time, and so when we look at a story and say we could do something with this, as poets, the same way that Shakespeare did that to the Greeks, we just think, “Oh, let’s put it in our type of poetry,” which is subdividing over a four-four beat.”. You know, we expect it, and so if we fall behind and we’re on what we call the back half of the beat, then the thing doesn’t land. What we found is that when you’re creating music for a scene that has to have dynamics and go up and down, if the music is too fleshed out and is more than just sort of a nod at a mood, then it binds, it handcuffs the actor, and they can’t play light moments, and heavy moments, and do as much with it because it’s sort of dictating what they can do. The public now perceives hip-hop as accessible in theater. Help us imagine that. I was supposed to be the captain of a state championship team, one of three captains, and at the time it was an all-male school, so I was like, “You guys, we don’t meet enough girls,” so I got five of my guy friends to go audition at the spring musical down the block at the all-girls school, and I gave up lacrosse for it, and I got the part of the Scarecrow in The Wiz, and then I won best actor in a musical, and then I was like, “Okay, that’s a cool way to leave high school.”. Award-winning and internationally acclaimed theater artists, the Q Brothers generate original work fusing hip hop and theater, adapting classic stories to a wholly original, entertaining and fast-paced style of comedic performance that has been energizing audiences for over two decades. WITMORE: Othello is a rapper who rockets to stardom when he teams with a diva named Desdemona. “And Cassio’s that!” (What? JAQ: So no, my… I mean my perception of it immediately was like, “Oh, this is a code and I can crack it. We use cookies to offer you the best possible service. It wasn’t even on the table. GQ and JAQ took time out between performances to talk with Barbara Bogaev, and before we hear their talk, here’s a little of the show. ", Mo money, mo problems.Who really love me?Who can I trust now?Who can I call to say I’m safe when I touch down?You could have it all but you wouldn’t care a bit,‘Less you had someone you could share it with.Share my riches? We had help from Alana Karpoff and Rachael Singer of the theater management company Jeffrey Richards Associates; Angie Hamilton Lowe at NPR-West in Culver City, California, and Devin Mellor & Camille Smiley at NPR in New York. TicketCity is a highly regarded place to buy tickets, with over 1 million customers served since 1990. Were you into that as kids? Story Othello: The Remix takes the writing of Shakespeare and places it over original hip-hop beats, proving the Bard was the original mater of rhythm and rhyme. A Chicago Shakespeare Theater and Richard Jordan Productions Ltd production. That and the fact it had long given us the phrase, “the beast with two backs.” But the performance dazzled and entertained. Othello: The Remix is performed entirely to track and is under 90 minutes at full length. And then I was just like “Oh, this is great, like there’s all these horrible things, and hilariously sexual things that my teachers would never allow us to say, and they’re teaching them to me, and, like, I don’t think half the class realizes how racy this stuff is,” but I thought that was so ironic and funny that it got me into it, you know? O, beware, my lord, of jealousy It is the green-ey’d monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on… Shakespeare’s gripping tragedy is remixed by Intermission Theatre Company, breathing fresh life into the stories of Othello, Iago and Desdemona in this new production directed by Darren Raymond (Shakespeare’s Globe: Shakespeare In The Abbey, The Shakespeare Walks). GQ: That’s music, and I don’t think he was saying I’m going to use more consonants to make it evil—. GQ: I had a reading… I mean they called it a reading disability. BOGAEV: Right, and then you feel something. A digital anthology of early modern English drama, Transcriptions, metadata, and images of manuscripts from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. We just sort of feel like, you know, perhaps iambic pentameter was the super hot rhythm of Shakespeare’s day, but it certainly is not any more, and so when we look at the world today, we look at it through a hip-hop lens. Thirty years ago in New York CityThis biddy named Betty that was o-so prettyMet an MC by the name of MC EgeonWho could get him jumping no matter what stage he's on.MC Ege would grab the mic an’ rock it,Take the crowd, pull ‘em in, and stick ‘em in his pocket.Nobody could knock it, he was an innovator.In a freestyle match, you never had a prayer.He was a metaphor for hip-hop in its early stages:A true art form that would last for ages.Now MC Egeon and Betty got locked up (married that is),And then Betty got knocked up (pregnant that is)…. April 12. Browse our full list of Shakespeare Unlimited episodes. BOGAEV: I can imagine Shakespeare’s mother calling him that. JAQ: It is. It don’t really suit me,When all I meet is superficial party-going groupies. Othello: The Remix2013-09-225.0Reviewer's Ratinghe achievement of brothers GQ and JQ, Rick Boynton, and their team in the production of Othello: The Remix is nothing short of extraordinary. Yes, you know it, yes we not bob-off,Hanging with Barbara.Yeah, you know we fine,Yes, it’s Shakespeare redefined.Yes, I meant it, Shakespeare reinventedAll kinds of ways,You know we are not on vaca-tion.G.Q. We hadn’t mixed them together. They were interviewed by Barbara Bogaev. JAQ: As quickly, certainly not as quickly. May 8, 2016. JAQ: Yeah, like I mean and you would think like I was not into acting at all. I mean like I was playing sports for four hours a day after school, and then I come home to six hours of homework, like my mom was like, “it should take two hours to do your homework.” So I think it was part exhaustion why I was so frustrated, but it was also like, “I can’t understand this. We invite you to personally participate in the life of the Folger Shakespeare Library by making a tax-deductible donation to the institution. GQ: You know, real moments that Shakespeare would have been playing as well. It requires a cast of four raptors (rapping actors) plus a DJ. GQ: As quickly, not as well. While Othello hands out favors to the members of his crew, he’s not fair about it, which leaves the rapper Iago jealous that he’s not getting his share of the limelight. I’m Michael Witmore, the Folger’s director. Our Unique Shopping Experience makes it easy to find the great seats. We’re totally for hip-hop growing on every single level, and so, like, one awesome thing that we can point to that Hamilton and Lin-Manuel has done for our work is that people now have less of a preconceived notion, something they can let go of. It’s like, the Roots are The Tonight Show band. You recognized the A, A, B, A, or whatever the rhyming couplets as music? GQ: I threw the book down, I cried to my mom, and I was probably 12 years old at the time, so cut to when I’m 18, 19 years old, and then have to perform it. Othello: The Remix does not just translate Othello into hip-hop, but adapts the story to a hip-hop setting, where all the characters are clear archetypes within that world. OTHELLO: THE REMIX played it's final performance January 15, 2017. Now MC E had never been good choosing names,So without much thought, he named two pairs the same.One he named Antipholus, the other Dromio.The next he named Antipholus, and then another Dromio.The next few years, times were very rough.When it came down to money, he never had enough.Four times as many cradles and four pacifiers,Four times as many bottles and mouths and dirty diapers... BOGAEV: And when you say that Shakespeare uses music to tell a story, do you mean you recognized as you were doing those line-by-line translations in college that these were musical forms? BOGAEV: Now, to back it up, after the musical, the rap numbers, you have beats that continue. GQ: Wisely said. © Folger Shakespeare Library. BOGAEV: Can you give us an idea of that? A Midsummer Night's DreamThe TempestNathan the Wise, Streaming for freeFull performance + special features. Home to the world’s largest Shakespeare collection, the Folger is dedicated to advancing knowledge and the arts. BOGAEV: Right, and a lot of people don’t get Shakespeare until they see it on stage. GQ, Postell Pringle, Jackson Doran, JQ in Othello: The Remix. NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' PICK! This fresh take is lyrically rewritten over original beats by The Q Brothers—America’s leading re-interpreters of Shakespeare through hip-hop. doing ad-rap-tations.Yes, that’s who we are.Hanging out, studios at NPR, huh.Across the way, across the coast,Yes, you know, we going bring the most,It go…. Whereas, if we keep the beats more skeletal in between bigger songs, the actor can lead, sort of, the plot of the story and the feelings. It is a musical and an opera of sorts, because all scenes are over music and in verse. Physically based writing, he wasn’t writing it to be read. That you had a violent reaction to it? THE Q BROTHERS' OTHELLO: THE REMIX is an 80-minute rap and hip-hop spin on the bard's tragic tale of love and jealousy. GQ: And we were improv-ing. We were born in the late ‘70s, so really like we were into breakdancing and…. JAQ: It’s usually through, like, a personal connection, but what happens is somebody sees our shows and they say like, you know, “I would love,” because it’s a new form of acting, and it’s also I think what teachers and educators of theater realize is that it reinforces good habits, like it forces you to not take a lot of space to do things and not be feeling yourself enough to take a giant pause here ‘cause there’s no pause to take. I’m just a music head, and I just like…, BOGAEV: Although I read that your mom’s nickname for you was “The Foul-mouthed Poet?”. Hip-hop is pop culture now in a way, and so for hip-hop purists like Iago in our show, he’s really lamenting that fact, but ultimately, like, that’s a good thing for us, and it’s a good thing for hip-hop, and it’s a good thing for people bringing an alternative view. He was writing it to be performed, and so when he would write a passage, and similar to the way that we write a passage, you don’t go like “Is this going to be good to be read?” You say no, like you may not even read this as a rhyme right now, but when it’s said correctly, you will totally hear it as a rhyme, and you will hear, “Pieces in my puzzle I’m a press into place, and I can tell it’s working, see the stress on his face?” You know, you can tell that that guy is angry when he says that rhyme. JAQ: Yeah, so it’s just in 4/4 rhythm. The New York Times says, "A clever and exuberantly performed mash-up of hip-hop and Shakespeare. I spied the impossibleCaught in gang crossfire,And goin’ to the hospital.My ‘hood was risin’Uprisin’!Mama’s so cracked out,She don’t recognize me. Become a member of the Folger Shakespeare Library and receive access to special member events. It’s we’re rapping but we’re acting, and that’s where we get to show the depth of character and play…. There are bigger songs in it that sort of—when a giant moment happens— it sort of turns into a song, but in between that is really where we dive into the meat of Shakespeare. I mean it wasn’t that, like, you know…. The show is an imaginative reworking of William Shakespeare’s classic play that transforms the protagonist into a […] GQ: A version of The Comedy of Errors done, but with four people, and we started translating the first stanza, and it just— it was an aha moment. He is living proof of the “American Dream.” Registered Charity No 1087149. BOGAEV: But why’d it get to you so much, that you were angry, and physical, and crying? JAQ: That’s a really good point. It was a production of Troilus and Cressida at the Experimental Theater Wing, and it was a main stage production, and we would spend… you know, experimental theater is about like physically based acting, and six viewpoints, and Peter Brooke, and I mean all kinds of master teachers from all over the world. Our main building is closed for a multi-year renovation. That’s why it’s more like an opera than a traditional musical because you still have your musical numbers, but in between it’s still over music, it’s still in rhyme, and that’s where all the rap-ting as we call it happens. 639 were here. BOGAEV: I mean what was it about Shakespeare that clicked for you as rap? On top of that we’re dancing while we do it, too. Here’s one from your current show in New York at the West Side Theater, Othello: The Remix, and this one’s Iago on jealously. All rights reserved. The Q Brothers Othello: The Remix. Thank you so much. GQ: This is Experimental Theater Wing, so I don’t think it was that heady. Hotels near Othello: The Remix: (0.08 mi) Pod Times Square (0.06 mi) Classic Midtown Manhattan 3-Bedroom 2 Bath (0.10 mi) Comfort Inn Times Square West (0.14 mi) 414 Hotel (0.17 mi) Hotel Scherman; View all hotels near Othello: The Remix on Tripadvisor However the cast could be made larger by "undoubling" roles. 639 were here. They followed that with Funk It Up About Nothin’ for Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Q Gents with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Rome Sweet Rome at the University of Iowa, and I-Heart-Juliet at Connecticut College. JAQ: Yeah, songs like Beastie Boy songs, and old school rap songs. Looking for Othello: The Remix Tickets? Written, Composed, and Directed By GQ and JQ (The Q Brothers) Off Broadway, Musical Open-ended Run Westside Theatre, 407 West 43rd Street. BOGAEV: So you guys have been at this a really long time, 17 years, right? From the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast series. With a script written by the brothers and composed entirely of rhyming couplets, the cast bring out their own particular interpretations of the play in this unique ‘ad-RAP-tation’ […] It was an epiphany kind of thing. GQ: No, no, then we’d be sold out for the next three years if that were true, but you do need those things, but it’s much different than when we were here back then, because at the time everyone who saw it like came out and was like “Wow, like I didn’t think I liked hip-hop.”, GQ: Yeah, like people would say “I actually”… a big compliment was, “I actually liked it,” and so we took it in stride being like “Okay, cool, you were expected to hate it and you liked it,” and they’re like “Yes!” But, like, for them to stay after and have to tell us that is a huge testament, so like— but that happened a lot back then, and I think that…. NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' PICK! It was all improv. Othello The Remix was originally commissioned by Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London as part of the Cultural Olympiad of 2012, and has since toured the world with Chicago Shakespeare Theater, playing to packed houses everywhere, garnering smashing reviews and all sorts of awards along the way. What exactly does that mean and is there a DJ— There is a DJ as part of your performance. The narration and characters are all performed in rap. Now I freely admit that I’ve never read the tale of Othello, though I did have a basic understanding of its premise. You see people struggle the same way that we feel the struggle when we go see Shakespeare. They were interviewed by Barbara Bogaev. 2021 shows are available now to purchase. BOGAEV: Right, and we’re going to talk a bit more about what’s in there for the Shakespeare heads, but just so I get a fix on the music: your scenes are two bar loops, I’ve read. [CLIP (continued) from The Bomb-itty of Errors:]. 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