Othellos Powerful POV
b"Chicago's Court Theatre\\xa0is producing a powerful and intimate production of Shakespeare\\u2019s The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice, and they are absolutely leaning into the play\\u2019s full, proper title. Kelvin Roston Jr.\\xa0(as Oedipus, left, and Othello, above) stars in the title role and discusses how he was brought in early in the process by directors Charles Newelland Gabrielle Randle-Bent, and shares fantastic insights about he approaches Shakespeare\\u2019s text; how it\\u2019s sometimes better to find physical alternatives to the text; the similarities between Shakespeare and August Wilson; how you can\\u2019t stage a vehicle without getting a good driver; the importance of specificity in language; the power of presenting an epic tragedy on a human scale; the valuable lesson that it\\u2019s not what or how the classics speak to us, but how and what we say to the classics; and a determination to make the phrase #TheatreInTheSurround happen. Now playing \\u2013 and streaming! \\u2013 until December 5, 2021; visit courttheatre.org\\xa0for more information. (Length 20:34)"