Civil War Othello

Tonight I saw the first play in Livermore Shakespeare Festival’s season, Othello. I joined Bob and Blanca on a relatively warm evening. While I always am frustrated by the theme of this play, it is very powerful. This production was very good. Interestingly it set the story at the later part of the Civil War, which kind of nicely fits in idea of the outsider black general. All the acting was good, though Iago wasn’t quite as viscerally evil as he did his dirty deeds. The scene were Desdemona was murdered was extremely long driving home the brutality of the act.
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