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...adding in some improvised ass-grabbings of his TF while they performed a scene from “The Taming of the Shrew.” Erenest Burnbaum Professor of Literature Daniel Albright likewise showcased his theatrical prowess, dropping an extemporaneous F-bomb as Iago from “Othello?? (don’t remember that from the play). Galena E. Hashozheva, a grad student, managed to impress her audience even without such tactics. Unlike some of her professors, she had memorized all her lines. “It was so hard, all those lines...
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...
...writes in an e-mail, “I picked ‘Desdemona’ because it is extremely well written and entertaining. Those persons very familiar with the Shakespeare version will be in for a delightful surprise. However, you do not need to know ‘Othello?? to enjoy this play.” As it tackles the significant themes of male-female relations and female sexuality and liberation, the play also works to amuse the audience with its sense of comedy and imagery that is deeper and more scandalous than the title implies...
...Paul Robeson as Othello?? exhibit, opening Wednesday in the Harvard Theater Collection of Pusey Library, includes photographs and documents that demonstrate why some people believe that Robeson’s Othello was “the most important Shakespearean production of the century,” according to Harvard Theater Collection curator Fredric W. Wilson...
...letter on display, from the President of Baylor University in Waco, Texas, informs Othello??s artistic company that the audience of the play would have to be segregated according to Texas’s Jim Crow laws. The production’s artistic company refused to perform before segregated audiences, and so Othello did not tour Baylor University, or, in fact, any Southern city. Even in Northern cities, segregation was such a fact of life that Robeson, although a national star, had trouble finding hotel accommodations in some cities...