By Isaac Butler for Slate, 11 November 2015 Is Othello black? With the news that David Oyelowo will play Othello opposite Daniel Craig’s Iago and that the Metropolitan Opera is finally discontinuingthe practice of blackface in productions of Otello, we may see a revival of thisoft-asked question. What people mean when they ask if Othello is black is: What did Shakespeare mean when he called Othello black? Would we […]
David Oyelowo and Daniel Craig to star in <i>Othello</i> Staff writers for BBC, 19 October 2015 British stars David Oyelowo and Daniel Craig are to star together in an Off Broadway production of Shakespeare’s Othello next autumn. The James Bond actor will star as Iago in the play staged by the New York Theater Workshop (NYTW), with Selma actor Oyelowo […]
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 […]
By Dick Lindsay for The Berkshire Eagle, 27 August 2015 Twelve Berkshire County Vietnam War veterans learned this week they have plenty in common with William Shakespeare. The Bard’s works often feature war veterans and the struggles they endured returning from the battlefields. On Wednesday evening, several of them took turns reading a militaristic scene from “Othello.” Later, they alternated lines […]
By Misha Berson for the Seattle Times, 8 May 2015 In a wordless prologue added to Seattle Shakespeare Company’s new production of “Othello,” the radiant couple Othello and Desdemona join in a private ritual. They kneel, dip their hands in water, and light a candle to kindle their new marriage. In John Langs’ powerful staging at Cornish Playhouse, that ritual candle […]
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