A new play about the play, and the man, and his affair with the woman playing Desdemona (who happened to be Ute Hagen), and also her husband (who happened to be José Ferrer) … well, there…
Be prepared to be enchanted, provoked, and emotionally drained in Othello Remixed. This passionate interpretation of Othello feels so right and so believable.
In touching on topical issues like knife and gun crime, drugs, discrimination, misogyny and the disaffection of young people in the UK today, Othello: Remixed demonstrates how Shakespeare's …
After last year's revelatory Lear, the Shakespeare Forum mounts another bold, insightful production for El Barrio's Shakespeare Festival 2019. This time, it's Othello(s)"a work that…
In Nigel Shawn Williams' hands, racism and misogyny foreground the jealousy traditionally seen as the primary theme of Shakespeare's Othello, writes Karen Fricker.
Hip-hop, grime and urban violence take centre stage in a new production of the Shakespeare tragedyModern street slang, words such as fam, peng, fleek and hench, should be dropped into Shakes…
Just in case you had any doubts that Shakespeare was still relevant.
In one of the strongest, visceral productions of Shakespeare running in this city now, the B…
It has been 12 years since the dame last appeared on stage " but now she's back with 'A German Life', a one-woman play about Goebbels secretary Brunhilde Pomsel. Paul Taylor charts the actor…
Mike Fox, a 56-year-old comedy promoter in London, was fined a total of £500 and sentenced to 50 hours of community service for shoving one of the actors in a 36-seat-theatre production o…
Phil Willmott's elegant production relocates Shakespeare's play to the Edwardian British Raj and makes Othello a conflicted collaborator in the British army.
Closing Phil Willmott's 'Enemies of the People' 2019 Essential Classics season is Shakespeare's classic Othello, marking the centenary of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, with events set in th…
Othello remains as relevant today as ever it were, Phil Willmott's adaptation setting it in the Raj of 1919, but it's as much in the White House and Palace of Westminster of 2019.
"Othello" is an extended free-fall " a national hero's plunge from widespread acclamation and joyful new marriage to legendary despair. In a gripping new staging for A Noise Within, director…
The Phil Willmott Company's bold new staging of Shakespeare's OTHELLO is set to preview at the Union Theatre in Southwark from 13th March and will run until 6th April. OTHELLO is the final p…
