Act 3, Scene 3 | Othello | Royal Shakespeare Company

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8 жыл бұрын

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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@kxmode 8 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.

@DebbyHorselover 8 жыл бұрын

How lovely to see this. I saw the play twice and it was one of the highlights of 2015 for me.

@shaunig6716 4 жыл бұрын

Loved this production! It really sucked me in and got me thinking about the play in ways I hadn’t before 🤯 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

@charlottep4222 4 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.”

@ChipperAaron54 4 жыл бұрын

Latte22 Iago does reference Othello using some racial epithets

@jglaude2 4 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.

@MFPhoto1 3 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.

@thescapegoatmechanism8704 3 жыл бұрын

That’s not the only possible reason. Iago also suspected Othello slept with Iago’s wife.

@knightofarkronia9968 3 жыл бұрын

Perhaps Iago doesn’t have a reason. Perhaps he simply enjoys this!

@music4lifesux 7 жыл бұрын

post the whole thing it's so good!!

@silentgirl2009 8 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.

@shaunig6716 4 жыл бұрын

The dvd is available to buy from the RSC online shop

@lorenzomilazzo7346 3 жыл бұрын

WHAT IS THE ACCENT USED IN THIS PLAY?

@yoyoeldas 5 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?

@FredFuchs77 5 жыл бұрын

frootjooce look at your videos. Long live you to think you are honest!

@mukiwabanda2794 4 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

@margaretgaskin4928 4 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.

@stevenq02 3 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

@stevenq02 3 жыл бұрын

Just look at Uncle Ruckus! Haha or Samuel L Jackson's fictional but historically drawn character in Django

@user-zg2kp3ln5q 3 жыл бұрын

👍😎👍

@theoike 5 жыл бұрын

my g from Luther

@Edwardsblackk 5 жыл бұрын

i think they should do a version in modern english

@benmitchell4542 3 ай бұрын

Yes maybe it does work against the text but this is the best Iago I have ever seen , apart from Kenneth Branagh

@user-qk6uv8fq5j 2 ай бұрын

Because you obviously haven't seen Bob Hoskins play Iago in the 1981 production for BBC. It's never been done better and probably never will.

@NarnianQueen89 3 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.

@aet5807 3 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.