We went to the Colorado Shakespeare Festival's 2015 production of Othello last night. If you like your tragedies and your classic villains, then this one, directed by Lisa Wolpe, was hard to beat.
http://www.coloradoshakes.org/plays/2015/othello
Peter Macon is a fantastic Othello, strong, full of life and love, until driven to madness and murder by Iago. That role is played by Geoffrey Kent, who gives us a Iago that anyone would love and truest — charming, witty, always ready with a good joke or a reluctant piece of advice.
The rest of the cast is solid, including a not-unassuming Emilia (Vanessa Morosco) and a strong Desdemona (Laura Baranik).
Went all three of us, along with +Stan Pedzick and +Mary Oswell, and a fine, if tragic, time was had by all.
Some other good articles on the show:
https://www.cpr.org/news/story/emmy-winner-peter-macon-shakespearean-themes-still-hold-true
http://www.westword.com/arts/geoffrey-kent-on-swordfights-playing-iago-and-the-colorado-shakespeare-season-6834626
http://www.westword.com/arts/review-geoffrey-kent-steals-the-show-as-iago-in-the-csfs-othello-6856257
http://coloradodrama.com/othello4.html
Yeah, I can see why Macon has won an Emmy, and Kent put forward the best interpretation of Iago I've seen. Playing up the "Honest" and charming made everything much more tragic in the end, with Kent's Iago chuckling at the end because what happened to him no longer mattering, as long as he had his revenge was perfect in its execution.
Clear from the video that earlier, maybe in dress rehearsals, Iago had a long wig. Glad they got rid of it, I don’t think it would’ve worked.
+Stan Pedzick Macon's Emmy is for voice work as narrator of Animated Tales of the World, "John Henry, The Steel Driving Man."
Kent was just marvelous. He may have spoiled me for other interpretations.
Othello is the one of the Big Four I haven’t seen, and I’ve seen Lear, Hamlet, and Macbeth at least twice each.
Watched Otello, but wandered due to the singing being too distracting.
The Mel Gibson Hamlet is one of the finest films ever- not often I see the same film twice in seven days.