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Othello needs to be retrieved even more than it needs to be revived. Of Shakespeare's four great tragedies, which include Hamlet, King Lear and Macbeth, Othello has become increasingly less accessible to modern audiences and actors. There are several reasons for this. To the contemporary playgoer, the Moor's marital jealousy is more amazing than it is convincing, and the evidence of the telltale handkerchief seems unbelievably flimsy. Today's audiences are also more interested in lago's psychologically obscure malignity than in Othello's open nature and loftiness of soul...
...works written by more than twenty artists including members of the company. Opening with a piece written by a guest teacher and artist Jose Limon, the troupe interprets the Concerto Grosso in D Minor with the classic curves dictated by his style. Like Limon's dance of Otherllo- the Moor's Pavane -the Concerto creates and expands circular space. Vivaldi's fast paced score supports the swirl of emotions performed by the group...
Romantic Past. What he found was "less like a small town than a large lifeboat," 17 sq. mi. of moor, mountain and rock supporting 138 people, where a purely feudal society had precariously survived the advent of the welfare state. Utterly interlaced through confinement and bloodlines, the islanders were leading lives somehow larger than life, gossiping about each other ("When Donald Garvard's got a bucket in him, he can be a pest of hell"), struggling to make a living from the land and the edges of the sea, engulfed in a romantic sense of the past that curls...
Gunn is not alone in psychologically violating the play. There should be a good deal of Juliet in Desdemona. After all, she is a virginal young girl swept into sensual love with the Moor, who is anathema to her father in much the same way that a Montague was to a Capulet. But Roberta Maxwell conjures up a prim housewife somewhat baffled by a hubby with a bad case of the sulks. Sne achieves an affecting poignance only in her deathbed speech. As for lago, he should be Lucifer's child trailing a brimstone stench of evil...
...productions, counting off-Broadway and Shakespeare-in-the-Park. Rarely, if ever, during that time has he received less than glowing notices in plays ranging from Genet's The Blacks to the gore-glutted Titus Andronicus in which Gunn played what he calls "the black Iago," Aaron the Moor. He will play the classic Moor, Othello, this summer at Stratford, Conn...