The unthinkable has happened. Othello has murdered her wife.
What force on earth could possibly lead someone to kill the one they love?
FOUR & A HALF STARS – “A tour de force ensemble performance brings this play right up to the 21st century.” Planet London
We bring our new adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic to the CLF Art Café following an incredibly
successful preview at the theatre’s ‘write here, right now’ festival in April. Recasting the lead as a gay woman and updating the setting to the present day – a Britain in the wake of the same-sex marriage bill being passed – this production features newly written text in dialogue with Shakespeare’s original material. New perspectives are offered as these characters speak back to and resist the destinies pre-determined for them by literature’s most formidable force.
The piece scrutinises the many
forms of prejudice still prevalent in Britain today and how they can powerfully interconnect to bring about tragedy, in the process addressing important issues such as domestic violence and being gay in the modern British army.
Monday 11th to Thursday 21st August 2014 @ the CLF Theatre, Peckham.
In text: Rachel Hawkes as Othello; Smith Lowe as Cassio and Kate Hunter as Desdemona. Above: Kate Hunter as Desdemona; Richard de Lisle as Iago and Tara Howard as Emilia; Richard de Lisle as Iago. Below: James Walker-Black as Bianco and Smith Lowe as Cassio
CAST & CREW
Othello Rachel Hawkes
Desdemona Kate Hunter
Iago Richard de Lisle
Emilia Tara Howard
Roderigo Alex Yaghma
Cassio Smith Lowe
Bianco James Walker-Black
Alice Siân Mayhall-Purvis
Ludovica Sinead Costelloe
Director SJ Brady
Producer David Bullen
Assistant Producer & Publicity Design Nicole Savin
Lighting & Sound Design Hannah Wiltshire
Stage Manager Joel Sport
Technical Director Wendy Haines