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Othello review " thriller focuses on anti-Muslim prejudice and 'alternative facts' by Lyn Gardner

Tobacco Factory, Bristol Director Richard Twyman's riveting production excels at depicting the racial and religious tensions underlying Othello and Desdemona's peril"So much ado, so much stress, so much passion and repetition about a handkerchief," lamented Thomas Rymer in his 1693 essay A Short View of Tragedy, demanding to know "how it entered into our Poet's head to make a tragedy of this trifle". Director Richard…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM on February 22, 2017

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