My wife + I have tix to see Othello, which I've never enjoyed. But last night, on the same stage, we saw @AmericanMoor, which pushes so intensely into a dialogue w/the play's failings, its potential, + the authority of whiteness in theater.....it's now all eyes on this production
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they are either colorblind or "post-racial." So they pick up this play as a way to signal inclusivity but don't pay close attention to the race politics of the play. They also turn it into "the Iago show," which is easy to do but a disservice to Othello. 2/
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I also think you have to cast a powerful actor as Othello because he doesn't have as much textual interiority. If he lacks the lines, then he has to have the presence. Most Othellos I've seen have lacked that. 3/3
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I keep thinking about the time and culture that impacts us;the
#Shakes worked to make play performances, but not the books we now read; I privilege those books in my own time and culture because they were and are more readily availabe to me than the performancesKiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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