Word: othellos
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...group will give "Othello," "Much Ado About Nothing," and "Measure for Measure" after "Henry the Fourth, Part I." Each play will run two weeks...
...walking off with every public-speaking and debating medal in the West, he returned after a tour to the South Pacific [as an artillery officer] to teach speech at U.S.F. and to work on a master's degree at Stanford . . . Hollywood called him after a scout caught his Othello in a Stanford Players production, and he has been slowly climbing the Hollywood heights ever since. He brings to his profession all the Christian virtues, asceticism, and hard work that his priestly brother brings...
...that theatre here has been authored only by these Masters--Old and New. But too many of the productions in the past, ranging through Corialanus, Candida, Blithe Spirit and Othello, have been seen and played too much to have any originality or much interest for the audience...
...branded with, but in portraying those who use the branding iron, in picturing a cruelly thoughtless pack in full cry after its quarry. If, despite being well told, the story seems factitious, it is less a matter of plausibility-Tea and Sympathy is far more "plausible" than, say, Othello-than of squeezing in as many sentimental and sensational elements as possible. This applies even to motivations, as with the lurking homosexuality in the blatantly masculine housemaster. At times it becomes as hard to imagine how popular drama ever got along without Freud as how routine farce ever did without...
...Paraphrase? Last week Elliott Lewis startled his Suspense listeners by producing, directing and acting in his own version of a two-part adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello. At first he planned to do a fast rewrite of Shakespeare, but a friend asked: "Why paraphrase? Have you got a better line than 'I hate the Moor'?" In stead, Elliott contented himself with cutting Othello from 146 minutes to 46. Instead of the usual thrill music, he used themes from Verdi operas as bridges between the action. As Othello, Elliott effectively portrayed the Moor's high-minded simplicity...