Word: othellos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special bus ride will leave for the Shakespeare Festival on Saturday, July 27, for the matinee performance of "Othello...
Walter Huston's 'Othello...
Here Huston described his New York performances in the title role of Othello during the first weeks of 1937, and their reception. He regarded his opening night performance as the finest achievement of his whole career. "I never felt better on any stage that I did that night," he said. The next day the critics unanimously panned him because "I was not ferocious enough, and I did not rave and rant." Realizing this was his first critical and commercial flop in 13 years, he decided toward the end of the play's brief run to act the role...
Hyman did the role of Othello off-Broadway three or four years ago. Though I was not able to see it, I understand it was a wild and explosive interpretation. Since then Hyman has thought a great deal more about the part, and now performs it in a controlled crescendo. He has felt driven toward Huston's kind of "subdued conception." The difference is that Hyman accomplished in three years what took Huston three decades...
Performances of Othello will continue the rest of the summer, with The Merchant of Venice joining the schedule on July 10 and Much Ado About Nothing on August...