By Mark Lord for the Queens Chronicle, 16 April 2015

In perhaps its most daring venture yet, Titan Theatre Company will bring an all-female version of “Othello,” one of Shakespeare’s most gripping dramas, to Queens Theatre for a limited run of 11 performances beginning April 17.

And, perhaps most shockingly, the women are not playing the traditionally male roles as men; they are playing them as female characters, creating some interesting and, at times, deeper new relationships among the characters.

For this production, the tale of love, jealousy and revenge, focusing on the title character, a Moorish general, his beloved wife, Desdemona, and his trusted but unfaithful ensign, Iago, has been streamlined by director Lenny Banovez into a taut two-hour running time.

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