David Harewood and Toby Jones are excellent in this overly-polished West End Shakespeare
6 / 10
Though it would be pushing it to say Tom Morris directs Othello as a comedy, he certainly wrings more laughs than usual out of Shakespeareâs great comedy. To be fair I donât think Iâd appreciated the extent to which previous productions Iâve seen had been using smart line reads to avoid giggles every time a character describes the villainous Iago â the greatest snake in English literature â as âhonestâ. Morris just cheerily milks it, and the result is a lighter-than-usual take on the play. Not out and out hilarious, but with a certain glossiness that speaks of a desire to go easy on a West End audience.
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