![]() ![]() “…reminiscent of Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and perhaps even more similar to the undercurrents in Anouilh’s Antigone, Duncombe’s work is a sort of shadow play that emphasizes different aspects of Othello that shift with the theme of the moment. undeniably unlike anything else in town.” Duncombe doesn’t so much deconstruct the tragedy of a noble Moor undone by manipulated jealousy as turn its interior workings into an irreverent dissertation on the post-millennial landscape….With director Frédérique Michel and her valiant cast maintaining a jagged emotional pull beneath the High Performance austerity, “Othello/Desdemona” isn’t exactly shy about upending expectations….It’s a starkly elegant, international-festival-ready staging…. “Those resolute renegades at City Garage have been tweaking the Bard all season in a triptych project they're calling “The Winter of Our Discontent: Shakespeare in the Digital Age,” which concludes with “Othello/Desdemona….Playwright, producer and production designer Charles A. OTHELLO/DESDEMONA, the latest INSeries production, is the result of something resembling a game of telephone.It began in 1565, when Italian writer Cinthio penned the short story Un Capitano. ![]() Later on, his he changed his position and became a man who was capable of killing. Just how it does speaks to the confusions, frustrations, and aspirations of our own times. As the play starts, Othello is described as a man who was romantic and committed himself towards his affair with Desdemona. She has a sharp tongue, a mind of her own, and a hunger for fame in her own right, yet underneath it all is still deeply in love with her "noble Moor.” Egged on by a video-camera-wielding Iago, hovering like a punk-rock bird of prey, and his wife, the transgender Emilia, you know from the beginning that, just as in Shakespeare, this is a love story that is bound to end badly. Desdemona, a Lolita-like figure trapped in a caged bed, is no longer the long-suffering, endlessly patient, perfect wife of the original. Othello, in the midst of an identity crisis, rejects his status as a servant of the Venetian State, hungers for political power, and experiments with the idea of self-identifying as white. In thefirst half of the book, they believe and reassure others that their love is real and no one else's opinion can affect this. Desdemona and Othello show their affection for each other regardless of racial and cultural differences. In Charles Duncombe’s new drama, Shakespeare’s familiar characters are thrust into an alarming 21st century world of racial conflict, slippery genders, white privilege, career conflicts, and domestic turmoil. Othello and Desdemona have a genuine and honest love for each other throughout the entire play. Othello, in the midst of an identity crisis, rejects his status as a servant of the V A post-modern take on one of the most famous love stories in western literature. ![]() In Charles Duncombe’s new drama, Shakespeare’s familiar characters are thrust into an alarming 21st century world of racial conflict, slippery genders, white privilege, career conflicts, and domestic turmoil. A post-modern take on one of the most famous love stories in western literature. ![]()
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