Its appearance on the RSC schedule came after a kind of Jacobethan X Factor project last year, with Doran inviting four academics to pitch little-known Jacobean and Elizabethan plays they thought should be on the stage of the Swan theatre.Įach suggested four plays and they were workshopped by RSC actors and directors before the final choice was made. ![]() The play has not been performed for nearly 400 years and audiences will find out if there were good reasons for that in April next year. Also part of that series is the obscure Love's Sacrifice by John Ford, much better known for 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. It will be directed by Iqbal Khan and will be part of a 'Venice' season at the RSC in 2015 that also includes Polly Findlay directing The Merchant of Venice and Trevor Nunn directing Henry Goodman in Ben Jonson's Volpone. It may be a completely crazy idea but I think it's worth pursuing because in the end, as you watch it, you just watch two really, really good actors doing it and that is the major issue."ĭoran said he had been trying to get Quarshie to play Othello for 10 years – "Holby City is not an excuse!" But with Lucian, every line became freshly minted and it challenged the whole play in a way I found completely revelatory. "I know when I was watching it with a really good white Iago opposite Hugh I was thinking right, yes, I've seen this before terrific. He is usually interpreted as being a deeply malignant racist, but what if both the main characters are black? "Really watch this space," said Doran. ![]() ![]() Iago is one of Shakespeare's greatest roles, played with relish in recent years by Rory Kinnear at the National Theatre and Ewan McGregor at the Donmar Warehouse.
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