NINE MOONS

In Nine Moons, the archetypes that Shakespeare gives us of Othello, Desdemona, Cassio and Brabantio, gather in our version of Venice to explore the realities of a family full of secrets, powerful friendships, and a story of unknown and ungovernable passion. Nine Moons is a narrative that we all can recognize and be touched by. We transform alongside these people to navigate the depths of our own humanity as we witness January through September in a stifling house of secrets. Artistic Director Jessica Burr directs a cast of four, including Robert Manning, Jr., Sophia Marilyn Nelson, Perri Yaniv, and Aaron Michael Zook. “Blessed Unrest and The Untitled Othello Project seek to explore social themes more deeply through a process of creating backstory that turns dimensionless archetypes into dimensionalized characters, representations of humanity into human beings,” states playwright Keith Hamilton Cobb.