Othello’s Sister

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A bold new theatre show from Anansi Theatre Company.

What if Othello had a sister? …What stories would she tell?

Othello’s Sister is a moving new production exploring legacy, identity, and the search for belonging created by Global Majority, female-led Anansi Theatre Company. At the heart of this devised show is a personal journey. Theatre-maker Lauren Nicole Whitter, Artistic Director of Anansi Theatre, uses the lens of Shakespeare’s Othello to explore her own connection to Jamaican heritage, tracing the threads of post-WWII migration and family history.

The play reimagines Othello’s world through his fictional sister, a woman left behind in Jamaica, whose journey unfolds alongside Lauren’s as both confront the echoes of colonialism, the silence of intergenerational trauma, and the joy of cultural rediscovery. Blending live music, movement, and testimony, Othello’s Sister was developed through workshops with Global Majority women and Windrush elders, centring voices too often unheard in British theatre.

Created by and for communities historically marginalised on stage, this Global Majority-led, female-driven production challenges dominant narratives and asks: What does it mean to belong? Who gets to hold history — and who gets to tell it?