From Willard White to Adrian Lester, modern theatre has yielded some terrific Othellos but none more so than Chiwetel EjioforWho should play Othello? In Britain, the last white men to do so, as far as I can tell, were Anthony Hopkins in the 1981 BBC Shakespeare series and Michael Gambon in a late 1980s production in Scarborough. Since then, the play has been enriched by the casting of black actors as Othello. But, m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AM on April 29, 2014