Fantastic Performance by Tim McInnery as Iago
And from Sam Crane as Roderigo – most enjoyable of all performers i’ve seen at the globe!
From Peter Brown, http://www.londontheatre.co.uk/peterbrown/reviews/othello07globe.htm
“Best known perhaps for his long-running appearances in the hit TV show 'Black Adder', Tim McInnnerny presents a more swashbuckling Iago than the customary definition of a scheming, political conniver”
and
“Though this version of Othello doesn't scream novelty, or provide much in the way of new insights, it continues the development of serious and polished Shakespearian work at the Globe since Dominic Dromgoole took over as artistic director there last year. Hopefully though, the best is yet to come.”
Another reviewer, Rob Marshall, http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/2746
“This Iago plays the Globe's interactive audience well (a hot, balmy night produced the usual pick and mix audience selection which only adds to a Globe visit. You feel as if you have been to the theatre with people you never met ,but got to know, just for this.)”
by William Shakespeare
- Director: Wilson Milam
- Designer: Dick Bird
- Composer: Stephen Warbeck
The republic of Venice employs Othello, a self-made man and a Moor, to defend its overseas territories against the Turks. But for all his military success, Othello remains an outsider in the city, an object of racism, envy and mistrust. As the Turkish threat gathers and Venetian forces are despatched to Cyprus, Iago, a junior officer secretly enraged by his lack of promotion, exploits Othello's ambiguous position and ingenuous nature, driving him into a passionate and uncontrollable jealousy.
Performed for the first time at the Globe, Othello, with its racing concentrated plot and intense dramatic details, is one of Shakespeare's most exciting, atmospheric and heartbreaking plays. By introducing to early 17th-century England a black character as complex as Othello, it is also one of his most extraordinary imaginative achievements.
Cast
- Bianca: Zawe Ashton
- Cassio: Nick Barber
- Emilia: Lorraine Burroughs
- Roderigo: Sam Crane
- Montano: Nigel Hastings
- Iago: Tim McInnerny
- Duke of Venice: Jonathan Newth
- Gratiano: Michael O'Hagan
- Desdemona: Zoe Tapper
- Brabantio: John Stahl
- Othello: Eamonn Walker
