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And her mother found locked in a closet, her hands and feet bound.
I didn't feel real at all.
More than a decade on, she's still searching for answers.
We're still fighting.
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Welcome to the documentary in the studio from the BBC World Service.
I'm Julian May at the stage door of the Theatre Royal Haymarket,
one of the most beautiful and impressive playhouses in the West End, London's theatre district.
When you hear this programme,
a new production of Shakespeare's tragedy Othello will just have opened.
It will run until the middle of January next year.
Othello is Shakespeare's only play in which the main character is a person of colour.
David Harewood, Hollywood star of Homeland and Blood Diamond, is Othello.
He was the first black actor to play the role at Britain's National Theatre back in 1979.
I'm obviously familiar with the sort of emotional map of the play,
but what I'm finding now is one always has to go back to the text.
Caitlin Fitzgerald, who was in succession, is Desdemona, Othello's young white wife.
Theatre is like a marathon and you have to be like a Jedi about your nutrition and your sleep and all that boring self-care stuff
because otherwise you just can't sustain it.