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...compelling twist on William Shakespeare’s tragic jealous-lover-turned-murderer story “Othello,” “Desdemona: A Play about a Handkerchief” features a comic cast of all female characters: Desdemona, her recently promoted chambermaid Emilia, and her friend Bianca, a local prostitute...
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel explores the actions and misunderstandings that precipitate the original work’s final tragedy—Othello’s murder of his wife Desdemona who he has been misled to believe is philandering—within the context of the emotional and social states of these three women...
...this Athena Theater Company (ATC) production, the characters hardly resemble their Shakespearean counterparts. Desdemona (Beth R. McLeod ’08), as opposed to being the faithful wife and innocent victim of her husband’s jealousy, emerges as a woman longing to live beyond the role of the traditional wife. She has turned to sleeping with the men of her husband’s company in an attempt to escape the confines of her existence...
...Desdemona, McLeod expresses the character’s loneliness and vivacity with a fitting sense of aristocratic entitlement. But it is Bianca who really makes an impression. Despite little stage time, Chan steals the spotlight and brings depth to Bianca by simultaneously expressing her exterior confidence and inner vulnerability, with more plausibility than the range of emotions attributed to such a flimsy character would initially suggest. Resnick also succeeds in channeling Emilia’s bitterness and repression, although, consequently, her character pales in comparison to the dynamism of the other two women. The most engaging moments, however, come when...
...also, at the same time, allows enough space for the actors to be constant in action, breathing life into the play’s dialogue-propelled plot. The direction also stages the action to subtly imply its context of the character’s social conditions; a privileged Desdemona constantly lounges while the household-supporting wife Emilia toils away and Bianca freely enters and exits as a woman of her own will and self-defined pleasure...