Word: roderigo
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...battlements of an 18th century Arab citadel at Mogador serve beautifully for the exterior scenes supposedly laid in Cyprus. Everything is done with great bravura style, from Orson's putting out a candle with the flat of his hand to a murderous shambles in a Turkish bath where Roderigo (Robert Coote) is trapped and killed, screaming beneath a slatted runway. When Welles strangles Desdemona, it is the most artistic strangling ever: he presses a silken scarf over her face, outlining every agonized feature just as if a nylon stocking had been pulled over her head. When Welles stabs himself...
...fine performance. In hope so. But Tom Gaydos, defeating opening night jitters, stole the show as the wily Iago. His performance, although at times uneven, generally flowed from peak to peak, setting a brisk pace for the other actors. This was particularly noticable in his scenes with Roderigo, played, with scant talent, by John Bethel. Gaydos seldom allowed himself the luxury of shouting, and even tried to tone down some of Heffron's more volatile scenes. His Iago was, perhaps, too good a fellow, but it is better to have that interpretation than a high-decibel reading without any shading...
...Mhyrum as Roderigo, "the peon's amigo," Nick Benton as Roxanne Rye, and Palmer Dixon's leering portrayal of Fingers Spumoni carry the scenes where the script itself might not sustain a non-musical interlude; but it remained for Fred Gwynne, cast as Pablo the Peon, to stop the show...
...First, there is the question of the almost "Emperor Jones" like musical interludes, especially the drum beats in Othello's moments of rage. Music is necessary, to be sure, for "Othello," unlike most of Shakespeare's tragedies, has very little comedy--even with the addition of an over-ridiculed Roderigo. Therefore, the music provides the needed break in tenseness of the play. It is too bad, however, that there is not an adequate orchestra...
...invalided out of the Army of the Potomac when he was 14. He went on to become a successful corporation lawyer, an anti-Bryan Democrat, the author of various respectable treatises on such subjects as interstate commerce, the husband of a Southern lady who presented him with Son John Roderigo...