Cast announced for Ghosts in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Shakespeare’s Globe has announced casting for their production of Ghosts in the Sam Wannamaker Playhouse.
Shakespeare’s Globe has announced casting for their production of Ghosts in the Sam Wannamaker Playhouse.
Ellen McDougall’s Othello is a very solid production, with excellent performances and a number of intriguing original motifs. Whilst these did not all work for me, mileage will vary between audience members, and the production’s many strengths and the excellent venue means it is to be recommended.
If incest between siblings remains one of the great taboos (and the success of Games of Thrones may suggest otherwise) then, in this production, Longhurst runs with the view that Ford sought to make no moral judgments: Annabella and Giovanni are the tragic figures, consumed by the judgments of people concerned with self-interest and personal wealth than what is right or true.
It is startling to realise this play was written seven years after Hamlet. It feels as fresh as a daisy. If you value the warmth that humour and truth provide, rush to see this. It’s a winner.