Othello
- Synopsis
- Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of Munchner Kammerspiele’s production of Othello adapted by Feridun Zaimoglu and Gunter Senkel and directed by Luk Perceval. Thomas Thieme is Othello.
- Language
- German (Standard)
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Video
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Recording date
- 28 Apr 2006
- Duration
- 120 mins
Credits
- Director
- Luk Perceval
- Writer
- Feridun Zaimoglu; Gunter Senkel
- Music
- Jens Thomas
- Production Design
- Katrin Brack
- Costume
- Ursula Renzenbrink
- Cast
Thomas Thieme Othello Julia Jentsch Desdemona Wolfgang Pregler Iago Stefan Merki Michael Cassio Sheri Hagen Emilia Bernd Grawert Roderigo Jens Thomas Piano Werner Rehm Brabantio Wolfgang Hinze Duke of Venice
Additional Details
- Theatre
- Royal Shakespeare Theatre
- Theatre company
- Muenchner Kammerspiele
- Production type
- Stage Recordings
- Historical period
- Contemporary
- Plays
- Othello
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Complete Works Festival (Stratford upon Avon 2006-7); Race-reversed productions
Notes
- Notes
- Performed in German with English surtitles.
- General
- British audiences and critics were incensed by the production objecting to a white Othello, the brutalist racist and sexist language, and the set (the one item of furniture on stage is a black piano, symbolically mounted on a white one, at which Jens Thomas picks out a virtually continuous jazz accompaniment).
- History
- The production played from 26-29 April 2006 at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre as part of the Complete Works Festival. The play was shown on German television on the ZDF Theaterkanal (3 May 2003) and a tape may be purchased from ZDF Programme Service: email: programmservice@zdf.de, http://www.theaterkanal.de/fernsehen/mitschnitt/
- Reviews
- Billington, Michael. The Guardian (April 28 2006). Billington writes "But what the production brings out better than any orthodox version I’ve seen is the idea that something of authentic value is being destroyed".
Production Company
- Name
Royal Shakespeare Company
- Web
- https://www.rsc.org.uk External site opens in new window
- Address
- Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Waterside
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
CV37 6BB
Archive
- Name
Arts Institute-Theatre Institute
- info@institutumeni.cz
- Web
- http://institute.theatre.cz External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 224 809 123
- Fax
- 224 809 123
- Address
- Celetna 17
110 00 Praha 1
Czech Republic
- Name
Shakespeare Birthplace Collections
- collections@shakespeare.org.uk
- Web
- https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/collections/ External site opens in new window
- Address
- Shakespeare Centre
Henley Street
Stratford-upon-Avon
CV37 6QW
Distributor (Sale)
- Name
ZDF - Programme Service
- programmservice@zdf.de
- Web
- http://www.theaterkanal.de/fernsehen/mitschnitt/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 0049-(0)6131/70 9510
- Fax
- 0049-(0)06131/70 9515
- Address
- HA ABD, Programmverwertung und -übernahme
ZDF-Straße 1
Mainz
55100
Germany
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "Othello". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av68373 (Accessed 26 Nov 2024)