Othello, Lyric Hammersmith, review: Physical theatre at its most pulsating and potent
This Othello smashes you in the face like a broken bottle. Even before it begins hard pounding music spills out from the auditorium into the theatre foyer. Once inside the stage looks like a seedy bar complete with pool table, leatherette banquette and flashing fruit machine. A board proclaiming Karaoke Nite reveals that Shakespeare's classic is not to be set in Cyprus but in a pub of that same name.