Othello
The production was muscular,
clean and clear. For honest Iago, Cynthia chose the
exceptionally likable Paul Sulzman, eschewing casting
an actor who would appear from the start as a villain.
Cynthia was particularly interested in the women in
the play, and Deb Fink as Emilia and Jen LeBlanc as
Desdemona both created strong, independent characters
full of depth and humanity. There were no victims,
and even Iago seemed overwhelmed by the scope of the
mischief he had caused by the end of the play. In
the year of its 400th anniversary, Othello continued
to fascinate.
One exciting outshoot of the
production was Aldo and Paul’s overwhelming generosity
in giving of their time to become involved with some
of our new outreach programs. The actors visited a
summer camp for mostly African-American youth from
Marin City who were studying and performing Shakespeare
for the first time. And they joined Education Director
Jonathan Gonzalez and inmates at San Quentin prison
in performing an evening of scenes from Shakespeare,
the culmination of Jonathan’s 10 months of teaching
Shakespeare behind bars.
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