With a confident gait and twisted grin, Wright ferociously embodies a woman strong enough to push back against her odious husband.
While these two men typically consume all the air in Othello, Alison Wright gives a standout performance as Iago's wife, Emilia. Rather than being Shakespeare's most inexplicable evil villain, Iago à la Stoll is as clear about his motivations as he is deliberate in his machinations. He's not driven by pure malice but by his own irrational jealousy. Yet once he has enough to form a theory (especially about something as precious as love), he eschews all conflicting evidence, irresistibly sliding into paranoia and rage.Īrmed with a bundle of circumstantial evidence and alternative facts, Stoll's Iago is confident, funny, and relaxed, making us understand why so many characters view him as a trusted source. Acting with the decisiveness of a general and demanding "ocular proof" of any claim, he puts his confidence in empirical facts over faith. Although his profession is killing, he melts into pure tenderness when he so much as glances at Desdemona. That begins with Othello: Far from an irrational brute, Iwuji portrays a military man ahead of his time. Santiago-Hudson has successfully led his cast to performances that make all of these characters complicated, contradictory, and fully human. Babak Tafti and Flor De Liz Perez appear in the Shakespeare in the Park Othello. The presence of Othello's handsome yet credulous captain, Cassio (the ideally cast Babak Tafti), is sure to aid him in this plot. Othello's deceitful ensign, Iago (Corey Stoll), sees an opportunity in all of this: He hates Othello and thinks that if he can make the Moor believe that Desdemona is unfaithful, he can lead him down a path of destruction. This match enrages Roderigo (Motell Foster), who wanted Desdemona for his wife. After some initial consternation, Dad accepts the marriage as Othello prepares to sail off to defend Cyprus from a Turkish invasion. He has recently eloped with Desdemona (Heather Lind), daughter of the senator Brabantio (Miguel Perez). Othello (Chukwudi Iwuji) is a Venetian general of Moorish (North African) origin.
He thrillingly rejects facile one-dimensional approaches, reaching for and grasping something meatier and a whole lot more challenging. Director Ruben Santiago-Hudson is having none of it. But this is untenable in the 21st century, with most productions highlighting racial discrimination against Othello, as if this is the only thing that matters in a play about jealousy, trust, revenge, and love. Racist interpretations of Shakespeare's Othello have cast the title character as a hot-tempered barbarian easily manipulated by the crafty Venetian Iago. Chukwudi Iwuji and Corey Stoll star in William Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, for Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte Theater.
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