Desdemona: Reimagining of Shakespeare’s Othello deconstructs gender and race at Melbourne Festival

By Alison Croggin for ABC, 17 October American novelist and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison’s revision of the Shakespeare classic Othello is a brave deconstruction of otherness; of American race relationships and the politics of gender. Sometimes it seems that the entire Western canon turns on the deaths of women. Again and again, women face two choices: they must be domesticated […]

November 1, 2015 · 0 comments · Global, Reviews, Theaters