Desdemona
- Synopsis
- Video recording of Ong Keng Seng’s production of Desdemona, a staging which brought several traditional and contemporary Asian performance forms, languages, and mediums together as a response to Shakespeare’s Othello.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Australia
- Medium
- Video
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Recording date
- 2001
- Duration
- 69 mins
Credits
- Director
- Ong Keng Seng
- Production Design
- Justin Hill
- Cast
Maya Krishna Othello Claire Wong Desdemona
Additional Details
- Theatre
- Optima Playhouse Theatre, Adelaide
- Theatre company
- TheatreWorks
- Production type
- Stage Recordings
- Plays
- Othello
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Multiculturalism
Notes
- History
- Produced by TheatreWorks (Singapore) at the Optima Playhouse Theatre, Australia, during the Telstra Adelaide Festival, 16-18 March 2000.
- Reviews
- Grehen, Helena. ‘TheatreWorks’ Desdemona: Fusing Technology and Tradition.' in TDR: The Drama Review 45, no. 3 (2001): 113-25. [Examines how in this production Ong Keng Sen "mobilises his performance praxis to complicate the questions of positionality, location, and subjectivity" through his integration of technology and tradition. Followed by Ong Keng Sen, "On Desdemona: A Response," 118.]. Lan, Yong Li.
`Ong Keng Sen’s Desdemona, Ugliness, and the Intercultural Performative’ in Theatre Journal - Volume 56, Number 2, May 2004, pp. 251-273.
Archive
- Name
globalshakespeares.mit.edu
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- Web
- http://globalshakespeares.mit.edu External site opens in new window
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "Desdemona". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av72933 (Accessed 26 Nov 2024)