During our longest episode to date, Nicholas Koy Santillo is joined by Lucy Atkinson, Lindsay Huebner, Whitton Frank, Joe Richardson and Robert Bradley. Join us from the Gielgud theatre in London's West end while we discuss the meaty centre of this awesome tragedy. During this episode we discuss, among others;
- Shakespearean clowns. Why are they there? Why are they always cut?
- The drastic emotional swings of the characters in Othello - are they justified?
- Emilia and Iago's messed up marriage.
- The incredible capacity for Shakespeare to give his actors direction through the structure of his verse.
- The domestic scale of the narrative.
- Why do we call it a 'feminine' ending, and what does tell the actor?
- Iago's ingenious capacity to persuade and convince, without outright lying.
Hugh Quarshie as Othello and Lucian Msamati as Iago in the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2015 production of Othello.