When Giles Terera, author of Hamilton and Me: An Actor's Journal, was auditioning for the role of Aaron Burr in the smash-hit musical Hamilton, a very different 'Aaron' was also on the table: that of Aaron the Moor in The Royal Shakespeare Company's Titus Andronicus.

The decision towards Hamilton was made and the rest is history – but throughout his time in the show, Giles' thoughts kept returning to Shakespeare, and how the Bard and Lin-Manuel Miranda's rap musical aren't as different as one might think.

Join the Olivier award-winning actor for fascinating insights into the surprising and enlightening parallels he discovered between the two worlds, as he delivers the annual Shakespeare Lecture at the Cheltenham Literature Festival.

Sunday 17 October 2021
Cheltenham Town Hall
Tickets from Cheltenham Literature Festival