"Making a 400-year-old play feel fresh is no small task"
Othello continues this week. Here are a few of the nice things people have been saying about the show:
“Jude Akuwudike has a powerful physical presence as Othello, especially as jealousy reduces him to a feral despair.”
The Stage
“Guy Hollands’ direction is deeply reverent to Shakespeare’s text... This is solid Shakespeare.”
The Stage
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPn66aiY6UjyZSU3dqUM0066mE_jZgVig05wMu7S4DVvLMUgsW3nL-gwDEdcq51thcGgosSYpdbsijhNR_knHCIjlkRfbRoMJEHn0weGurh3VNlNvl3xTcYbOF_tnsq4s7EHDyBXtGXcMn/s400/IMG_4811.jpg)
“The supporting cast are strong and Philip Cairns lends Cassio an appropriately innocent charm.”
The Stage
"Andy Clark’s Iago is potently charismatic and disarmingly jocular… he delivers his lines with a frighteningly assured tone that calls to mind Robert Carlyle’s Begbie in Trainspotting."
OnStageScotland
“The modernisation works well…Making a 400-year-old play feel fresh is no small task. The company has managed to do so without falling into the trap of the ultra-modern.”
OnStageScotland
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLSYBLvayG4oszyB5iw31vGhd6F80pZeDE1NyHLgCvLCD0gcGjvPM5F_R_y__9HIjF3zBzEKOHJCdy_FQ9ktOG7X7U94GTtY_7I5gkoJymfCbTSnrm_u_7qleitQLVSglE6qDbg5luaDBj/s400/Othello+hi+res+by+Eamonn+McGoldrick.jpg+%289%29.jpg)
You can see more pictures from Othello here and some absolutely gorgeous original costume designs (by Philip Witcomb) here.
Hx
“Jude Akuwudike has a powerful physical presence as Othello, especially as jealousy reduces him to a feral despair.”
The Stage
“Guy Hollands’ direction is deeply reverent to Shakespeare’s text... This is solid Shakespeare.”
The Stage
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPn66aiY6UjyZSU3dqUM0066mE_jZgVig05wMu7S4DVvLMUgsW3nL-gwDEdcq51thcGgosSYpdbsijhNR_knHCIjlkRfbRoMJEHn0weGurh3VNlNvl3xTcYbOF_tnsq4s7EHDyBXtGXcMn/s400/IMG_4811.jpg)
“The supporting cast are strong and Philip Cairns lends Cassio an appropriately innocent charm.”
The Stage
"Andy Clark’s Iago is potently charismatic and disarmingly jocular… he delivers his lines with a frighteningly assured tone that calls to mind Robert Carlyle’s Begbie in Trainspotting."
OnStageScotland
“The modernisation works well…Making a 400-year-old play feel fresh is no small task. The company has managed to do so without falling into the trap of the ultra-modern.”
OnStageScotland
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLSYBLvayG4oszyB5iw31vGhd6F80pZeDE1NyHLgCvLCD0gcGjvPM5F_R_y__9HIjF3zBzEKOHJCdy_FQ9ktOG7X7U94GTtY_7I5gkoJymfCbTSnrm_u_7qleitQLVSglE6qDbg5luaDBj/s400/Othello+hi+res+by+Eamonn+McGoldrick.jpg+%289%29.jpg)
You can see more pictures from Othello here and some absolutely gorgeous original costume designs (by Philip Witcomb) here.
Hx
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