Othello: 'Freshly minted' RSC production is the latest twist for a play that needs radical casting
An intriguing bit of casting might just make Iqbal Khan's new production of Othello at Stratford-upon-Avon feel " in the words of RSC artistic director Gregory Doran " "freshly minted": not only is Othello being played by a black actor, Hugh Quarshie " but so is his tormentor, Iago. It is Lucian Msamati uttering lines such as "an old black ram is tupping your white ewe".