Playing Othello As An Out Lesbian General

Says director Gemma Bodinetz, "I wanted to make a modern audience sit up and feel something of what a Jacobean audience must have felt at seeing a black man commanding an army." Star Golda Rosheuvel: "Some men have a terrible fear of women, particularly powerful women. They would prefer not to see change, and this Othello is part of change. She is a woman who has power over all these men, all that testosterone. How does she negotiate that? Then she goes further and brings her lover - Desdemona - into that arena. It's a scary thing to do."

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