Othello
The Old Globe's staging is more interesting in conception -- i.e. what if? -- than execution. Like Romeo and Juliet it verges on comedy until the end. It, and Richard Thomas's engaging, John-Boy Iago, is entertaining, but anything resembling tragic stature is lost (I've never heard a Shakespearean tragedy get more laughs). Blair Underwood has the physicality and verbal chops for Othello, but the staging undercuts him at every turn. He's too easily duped. Kristen Connolly's well-spoken Desdemona could react more when her life is on the line. Katherine Roth's costumes place the action in the early 19th Century. Wilson Chin's glitzy walls and chain-link fences suggest Las Vegas more than Cyprus. Live percussive accompaniment gives the production a seriousness it otherwise would lack.
When
Ongoing until Sunday, July 27, 2014
Hours
| Sundays, 8pm |
| Tuesdays, 8pm |
| Wednesdays, 8pm |
| Thursdays, 8pm |
| Fridays, 8pm |
| Saturdays, 8pm |