William Shakespeare's
Othello
“O beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the
green-eyed monster which doth mock the
meat it feeds on...”
Othello, easily Shakespeare’s most relentless and tightly compressed drama, a dark, brooding thriller. A rare chance for students across NSW to see this masterpiece live.
This innovative production combines Sport for Jove’s trademark textual clarity and storytelling with a powerful cast and design – a remote military base in an occupied country where a trusted soldier will work away at the certainty of his commander like an irresistible tide.
Othello is saturated with references to water. Oceanic mystery is the poet’s chief imaginative device and source of metaphor in this study of marriage, love, sex, persuasion and the illusion of loyalty.
No Shakespeare play is more moving or offers a more modern sensibility or X-ray of contemporary political tensions. A General from ‘outside’ Venice, enlisted as a child soldier at the age of 7, now leads a Christian naval force in what appears to be a fully assimilated and enlightened racial environment – until his sexuality crosses a boundary that stirs latent hatreds and xenophobic fears of the ‘other’. Venice, a city resting precariously on its own watery grave, and Cyprus, a frontier surrounded by enemies and a hostile ocean, are the battlefields upon which family, love, community, trust, ambition and jealousy are put under the severest trial.
Included in
all bookings
Detailed Student
Resource Kit
Photography by Seiya Taguchi
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Syllabus Links
English – Stage 5 & 6, Year 11 students: also suitable for Stages 4 & 5 Drama students; Language, Literature, Literacy; The Arts, Theatre and Cultural Studies
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Duration
2 Hours, no interval
+ Q&A post show
"My students and I just love the spirit that drives you to make words have real and personal meaning. You infuse the theatre with that energy - it’s priceless and addictive! Thank you for putting such time and effort into this show. It was brilliant. The kids were just rapt.”
TEACHER, BARKER COLLEGE
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