Othello, dir. Daria Bukvic. Tr. Esther Duysker. Het Nationale Theater. Utrecht, Podium Hoge Woerd, 24 February 2018. Review by Paul Franssen (Utrecht University) Few recent Dutch Shakespeare productions have come in for more advance publicity than this Othello. Indeed, it was a remarkable production. For director Daria Bukvic, the central issue of Othello was race: […]
Othello at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe, London, April 2017 Reviewed by Madison Doss, Burning Coal Theatre Company The issue of race in Othello is inescapable—and it should be. Ellen McDougall, director of the Globe’s most recent production of Othello, acknowledges that “productions must take responsibility for the racism, misogyny, and sexual violence in both the […]
Pamela Schermann’s Othello: Iago’s Capitalist Tragedy, Time Zone Theatre Company @ Waterloo East Theatre, London, 10 March 2015. Cast: James Barnes (Othello), Trevor Murphy (Iago), Charlie Blackwood (Desdemona), Ella Duncan (Emilia), Denholm Spurr (Cassio). Reviewed by Charlene Cruxent One table. Three chairs. Five actors. White curtains. That’s all it takes for Pamela Schermann to create […]
Pericles, Yohangza, dir. Yang Jung-ung, TJ Towol theatre, Seoul Arts Centre, Korea. 23 November 2016, 3pm matinee. Reviewed by Sarah Olive I recently attended the Asian Shakespeare Association conference in Dehli, where the disoriented spectator was having a field day: the concept from theatre criticism, that is, rather than a person (though […]
Nicholas Hytner’s National Theatre production of Othello, with Adrian Lester as Othello and Rory Kinnear as Iago, was a big hit this year; it won five star reviews in the press and the live transmission played to cinema audiences around the world. Several critics noted that Hytner had reconstructed the play to make it less about racism – […]
