Othello

When Othello, an African general working for the Venetian state, and Desdemona, a senator’s daughter, fall in love, they marry secretly knowing their union will not be approved. Their love should signal a celebration of difference, the triumph of love over prejudice and intolerance. Instead it is destroyed. In Othello, Shakespeare examines jealousy and the role of the outsider. A story of its time and for our time, it is urgent, gripping, radical and beautiful.