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: […]
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 – […]