Everyman, LiverpoolCasting a woman as Othello was a brilliant move, but setting the play in the present day undermines itSince a play is a world of make-believe, gender-blind and colour-blind, casting seems to me all of a piece with the pretence. Similarly, altering the time and place of the action is not intrinsically problematic. After all, the fiction has life because of our collective agreement to suspend our dis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24AM on May 6, 2018