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TAKING on any of Shakespeare’s tragedies is a big task and taking on two of them at the same time is positively Herculean.
But here director Jude Christian takes Shakespeare’s Othello and his Macbeth, cuts them mercilessly, and then stitches them together again. Her production starts with a pacey Othello which has shed Iago’s soliloquies, leaving us blind to his complicated motives and leaving us instead with a ruthlessly effective manipulator whose rage bubbles just below the surface.
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