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MOBO award winner Akala takes on the challenge of staging Shakespeare's Othello with a hip hop twist. Can Akala and 50 young Manchester-based MCs, musicians, dancers and visual artists script and perform Othello Retold in just two weeks? BBC Blast follows the young hopefuls in their challenge to breathe new life into Shakespeare.