Hugh Quarshie as Othello and Lucian Msamati as Iago in Iqbal Khan's 2015 production of Othello with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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@kxmode8 жыл бұрын
It's an odd thing. It's very naturalistic and yet Elizabethan. The blend of both works so extremely well to the point that I actually understand the interchange. Truly, a pair of Amazing deliveries.
@shaunig67164 жыл бұрын
Loved this production! It really sucked me in and got me thinking about the play in ways I hadn’t before 🤯 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
@DebbyHorselover8 жыл бұрын
How lovely to see this. I saw the play twice and it was one of the highlights of 2015 for me.
@charlottep42225 жыл бұрын
The only supported textual reason that Iago hates Othello is that he is passed over for a military promotion. The actor explains that his Iago is upset that a black man who should have “stuck with him” passed him over for a white man. A much more interesting portrayal than “Iago bad because racism.”
@ChipperAaron544 жыл бұрын
Latte22 Iago does reference Othello using some racial epithets
@jglaude24 жыл бұрын
@@ChipperAaron54 Having participated in a 1977 production here in America (California, to be precise) that also had a black Iago, playing up the resentment of a black man being passed up for a promotion in favor of a white man worked just fine in our production. As for the racial epithets used by Iago in referencing Othello, he would simply have been echoing the disparaging terminology used by the ruling class.
@MFPhoto13 жыл бұрын
@@jglaude2 A few years back the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington DC did a production with a black Iago and a white Othello -- played by Patrick Steward. Unfortunately I missed it.
@thescapegoatmechanism87043 жыл бұрын
That’s not the only possible reason. Iago also suspected Othello slept with Iago’s wife.
@knightofarkronia99683 жыл бұрын
Perhaps Iago doesn’t have a reason. Perhaps he simply enjoys this!
@music4lifesux7 жыл бұрын
post the whole thing it's so good!!
@silentgirl20098 жыл бұрын
Is this from the livestream? When will the DVD/digital download be available? I watched it at the cinema and really want to watch it again.
@shaunig67164 жыл бұрын
The dvd is available to buy from the RSC online shop
@benmitchell45424 ай бұрын
Yes maybe it does work against the text but this is the best Iago I have ever seen , apart from Kenneth Branagh
@lorenzomilazzo73463 жыл бұрын
WHAT IS THE ACCENT USED IN THIS PLAY?
@yoyoeldas5 жыл бұрын
Just to be curious (since I haven't seen this production), how does this play work with Iago being black, since the script draws heavily on his racial prejudice towards Othello?
@FredFuchs775 жыл бұрын
frootjooce look at your videos. Long live you to think you are honest!
@mukiwabanda27944 жыл бұрын
@FredFuchs77 what's his videos got to do with anything he just said? Far as I know Iago is a white Venetian constantly making comment about Othellos race. Yeahhh making Iago black is kinda ridiculous u have to admit
@margaretgaskin49284 жыл бұрын
Watch it. It works. It challenges. It holds the mirror up to nature in the audience - their own reaction shows virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. See the prejudice displayed in the comments.
@stevenq023 жыл бұрын
Don't assume it's ridiculous or doesn't work because it's not portrayed in the way it was written. There is a long-standing virulent and violent history of colorism, prejudice, and hatred within the black community
@stevenq023 жыл бұрын
Just look at Uncle Ruckus! Haha or Samuel L Jackson's fictional but historically drawn character in Django
@theoike5 жыл бұрын
my g from Luther
@DE1CRAFTS5 жыл бұрын
i think they should do a version in modern english
@user-zg2kp3ln5q3 жыл бұрын
👍😎👍
@NarnianQueen893 жыл бұрын
I think it is intresting that this is an African cast since Iago in the play seemed to explicitly hate Othello because he was Moorish.
@aet58073 жыл бұрын
He makes racist comments stir up racism in Desdemona’s dad, but in his monologues he hates him for promoting Cassio, and possibly sleeping with his wife Emilia.
@daniellecrocker811 Жыл бұрын
Also remember it is also due to Iago dislike of outsiders... Iago is Venetian
@HMSBreadnought Жыл бұрын
Another idea is that Iago hates Othello for picking Cassio over him, despite Iago and Othello's battles together
@Jalcolm1 Жыл бұрын
The play isn’t racist. Iago IS racist. He’s also crazy, sadistic, mysogenistic and a genius of improvisation. Asking the motivation of genius monsters is a bit pointless. His motivation is that he’s a genius monster. Like Richard 3. But scarier. Read the history of the 20th century… people ARE scary.
@MahmoudIsmail1988.5 жыл бұрын
Iago black?? yea darker than the moor himself?! It's just not right.. it works against the text.. experimenting gone too far