6 / 10
In the end, I wish Tucker had gone further to streamline the text and make it resonate more clearly to modern audiences, or to provide a consistent framework (like that Baldwin quote) that carried through the whole show. With so few actors playing so many roles, it’s harder to identify with any one of them for very long, to put ourselves in their shoes and imagine how we too might become that monster.
7 / 10
What might ultimately be missing here in the theatrical playfulness that is so fundamental to Bedlam and Tucker’s direction. This is a good, unique, and smart Othello, but it lacks the fun that undergirds much of Bedlam’s past successes.
Atlas Shakespeare Company has released rehearsal photos for its upcoming production of OTHELLO. Directed by Adriana Alter, the production will run June 17 through June 28 at the Underground Theater at Abrons Arts Center in Manhattan.
Directed by Eric Tucker, Bedlam‘s new production of Othello is now playing at the West End Theatre off-Broadway. The production features just four actors inhabiting the 19 roles of Othello. Read the reviews here!
Othello is arguably Shakespeare’s most controversial show, often called a “problem show,” given its deep explorations into race and misogyny. Putting on a production of Othello is no small feat, but under the direction of Associate Artistic Director Candice Handy, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, and the entire cast and crew did a fantastic job exploring the intricacies of this infamous show and crafting a production that felt uniquely their own.
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