Word: othellos
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Later the same week, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest will open, and both will be presented during the first month. In the fifth week, the group will add George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House, followed by Othello and Sam and Bella Spewack's Boy Meets Girl...
Tireless Name-Dropper Elsa Maxwell, reporting for the Hearstpapers her latest encounters with the well-known, recorded some brief banter with a sly curmudgeon of old. "I once asked Bernard Shaw which was his favorite Shakespearean comedy," wrote Elsa, "and he replied. 'Othello.' 'But Othello is not a comedy,' I told him. 'It's a tragedy.' Mr. Shaw quipped, 'Any play whose plot hangs on a lady's handkerchief must be a comedy...
...central character, played by John Colicos, is King Leontes, who unjustly believes himself cuckolded and proceeds to wreak his jealousy on everyone around, even defying the oracle of Delphi. Of Shakespeare's three great studies of jealousy--Leontes, Othello, and Ford--this is the most realistic. Leontes is a neurotic with high blood pressure and fits of paranoia. Whereas Othello's jealousy builds up in a steady crescendo, Leontes' bursts out in white heat at the outset and, feeding on itself, stays at the same level...
...first production, the Independent Players will present Othello, by William Shakespeare. The play will probably open on October 15 at the Pi Eta Theatre, thus making it the first under-graduate offering of 1958-59. Wolfson said that backers have already invested about half of the necessary money...
Wolfson also announced part of the cast for Othello, which will be directed by Jan A. Hartman '60. William M. Kelley, Jr. '60 will appear as Othello, Earl Edgerton as Iago, Nathan C. Douthit '60 as Cassio, and Edith Iselin as Emilia...