Othello
Director stabbing Desdemona while Othello watches
My old friend is directing and a few friends are in a performance of Othello next weekend. Othello is actually one Shakespeare play I haven’t seen or read or really come in contact with. Which is strange. It’s an early play that deals explicitly with race, which should be interesting. I also hear that it’s long, but the actors assure me that the version they’re performing has been a bit edited. The play is runs from the 30th to the 1st at the Lionel Wendt. Here are a few photos, mostly of the official photographers legs.
Director’s leg and lead actors
Desdemona under the stage lights
Principal cast, director sans head
for further info they have a very 2.0 website designed by my friend Mili, I think.
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Mili actually was heavily dependent on his friend Nazly. :)
aney, dilan’s comment got removed. :(
Too bad, wonder if there were any like-minded replies
Oh dodo come on you live in Sri Lanka no … the day you’re born you’re censored … in your case a good thing…
What I don’t get is that a Sinhalese person is playing a black man … how is that possible? Aren’t you all supposed to be Aryan?
Was that an attempt at humor, if you failed pathetically. Get a life dude
again rubbish! the post should have been on how extremely hot and sexy desdemona looks/is…what a stunner!!! lol!(unless she is 250 kg under that dress, but it doesn t look like it…)
omg theres more on that mooreof venice site…im in looove!oh desdemona, thou art a beauty without comparison and these oafs don’t even realize…oh desdemona…..i’m gonna drink poison and throw myself from dondra lighthouse…
I should have said it that way instead…
nah, yours was more ‘real’
Wow, the girl is really beautiful! What is her name?
Actually race has little to do with what Othello is actually about. Of course it does make an appearance here and there, but it’s possible that the race theme has been slightly over-analysed (as is most of Shakespeare’s work) by later interpreters. However – it deals with the equally potent themes of jealousy, obsession, paranoia, the idea of masculinity. To me those are the things that makes Othello a truly remarkable account of what is effectively one man’s nervous breakdown.