New Boy. Hogarth Shakespeare Project

She noticed him before anyone else...Arriving at his fourth school in six years, diplomat´s son Osei Kokote knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day - so he´s lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student can´t stand to witness this budding relationship: Ian decides to destroy the friendship between the black boy and the golden girl. By the end of the day, the school and its key players - teachers and pupils alike - will never be the same again. The tragedy of Othello is transposed to a 1970s suburban Washington schoolyard, where kids fall in and out of love with each other before lunchtime, and practise a casual racism picked up from their parents and teachers...