Othello
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Opened Sep 27, 2009
Closed Oct 4, 2009
Opened Sep 27, 2009
Closed Oct 4, 2009
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The Public launches its 2009-2010 season with a contemporary production of Shakespeare's most passionate and spiritually-charged creation. Longtime artistic collaborators and Public Theater favorites John Ortiz and Philip Seymour Hoffman, are Othello and Iago, roles of fire and intensity in Shakespeare's globalized contest of deception, ambiguity and overpowering love.
Peter Sellars, renowned for tearing through boundaries with his visionary stagings of the classics, explores the new prospects for hope in 21st-century America giving the play a modern resonance that raises a mirror to our culture's racial struggles and achievements, both darkened and illuminated by overwhelming personal and political yearning. Presented by The Public Theater and LAByrinth Theater Company in association with Wiener Festwochen and K15 Festival and by special arrangement with NYU Skirball Center.
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Words fail--- whose fault is THAT?
Since Mr. Sellars believes he has so much to say, I suggest he begin writing his own plays, or else producers need to realize "the emperor has no clothes", which has long been my impression of his body of work. However, Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Iago swayed me to take a chance. NO ONE save Leroy McClain in this ill conceived disaster has a clue about inhabiting the language. Sellars concept is arbitrary at best. None of the relationships have any clarity whatsoever. We counted twenty people on our side who left before us. Stop the pain---STOP HIRING PETER SELLARS!
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on Thursday, Oct 8th, 2009
Simply excruciating
This was the worst $90 Ive ever spent. I could go on and on about how horrible this production was, and while suffering for four hours in the audience I was repeatedly tempted to stand up and shout, "Just kill her! Do it now! Kill her, kill him, kill yourself--- KILL ME, PLEASE!"
The directors concepts were so incredibly arrogant, juvenile, and self-serving that I felt as though I was the victim of theatrical bukkake.
Reviewed by groovy1967
on Friday, Oct 2nd, 2009
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Peter Sellars makes a number of bold choices in his production of Othello, currently being presented by The Public Theater at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. Unfortunately, many of them are not only ineffective, they don't even make coherent sense.
Interestingly, what should be one of Sellars' more controversial decisions is actually the least damaging to the play -- which is that Othello is not being played by a black actor, but by the Latino John Ortiz. With a cast that includes a mixture of black, Latino, and white performers, racial tensions are not the focus of the production. Mimi O'Donnell's modern-dress costumes firmly root the staging in the present, and while the tex[...]