"Where should Othello go?" This is one of the final questions that the titular character asks in Shakespeare's "Othello," and points to the work's seminal exploration of "otherness" and the …
Every great play by Shakespeare takes on altered shades of meanings depending on a production’s directing, design, and acting. That’s a theater truism. Also well-known to practit…
Shakespeare is our North Star because every time we do one of his great plays, it is an opportunity to rethink our assumptions, as they define our present selves. I first saw Othello in 1969…
Paul Robeson is the first black actor to attempt Othello in a century, at the Savoy Theatre on March 19 1930"A tragedy of racial conflict" was how Paul Robeson summed up Othello as he rehear…
Richard Twyman revives Shakespeare with style, Ontroerend Goed explore feminism and Akram Khan looks at the past through Bangladesh and Britain1 OthelloRichard Twyman's revival is a real cra…
Director Richard Twyman makes a stirring case for setting his touring production of Othello, now playing in-the-round at Wilton's Music Hall, in modern dress. In one scene early on, when Oth…
This Othello is among the very best I have seen. Without star names and with no public subsidy, Andrew Hilton's Bristol-based company has a glowing reputation for concentrating on the essent…
Losing faith: Amy Borsuk reviews a production of Othello with religion as its core.
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English Touring Theatre Artistic Director Richard Twyman, in collaboration with Amal - A Said Foundation Project, today announces The Othello Project, an additional programme of events takin…
There is less than a month to go before one of Shakespeare's most contemporary plays, Othello, comes to Wilton's Music Hall for a limited number of performances, following on from a critical…
Shakespeare's Globe, London is staging "Othello," at its candlelit indoor theatre Sam Wanamaker Playhouse through April 22, 2017.A much-celebrated hero, Othello marries Desdemona, the love o…
In light of Roman Tragedies reminding us of the vast potential of what Shakespeare can be rather than the tendency towards the 'proper' readings of his work that we tend to get here in the U…
Ellen McDougall's production of Shakespeare's tragedy is currently playing at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse " but what have critics been saying about it?
By Matthew Lunn
Ellen McDougall's Othello is a very solid production, with excellent performances and a number of intriguing original motifs. Whilst these did not all work for me, mileage wi…
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonEllen McDougall's claustrophobic staging of Shakespeare's tragedy has moments that make you see the play afreshIn director Ellen McDougall's Othello, Desdemona…
Othello as Iago's tale: sex, violence and mysogynyIntimacy is a mixed blessing: Richard Twyman's close-up exploration of sex and violence in his production of "Othello" for Bristol's Sh…
Kurt Egyiawan's Moor takes arms against a sea of production troubles, but in vainThere's no reason why ruffs and candles shouldn't mesh with bursts of contemporary speech, song and ligh…
