Howard Miller takes a look at Othello:
Director Ruben Santiago-Hudson brings some of our current understandings regarding race and gender to the Public Theater's production of Shakespeare's Othello at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. But purists should have nothing to complain about with respect to the largely traditional three-hour performance. There is none of the extravagant silliness that accompanied last summer's Julius Caesar, with its Donald Trump-as-Caesar gimmick, or the previous year's burlesque-y reinterpretation of The Taming of the Shrew. Both were entertaining in their own way, but, you know, so is straight-up Shakespeare, provided it is in the right hands. . . . |
