{"id":51789,"date":"2015-07-19T11:01:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T17:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/19\/stage-review-othello.html"},"modified":"2015-07-25T11:55:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T17:55:51","slug":"stage-review-othello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/19\/stage-review-othello.html","title":{"rendered":"Stage Review: &quot;Othello&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went to the Colorado Shakespeare Festival&#39;s 2015 production of <i>Othello<\/i> last night. If you like your tragedies and your classic villains, then this one, directed by Lisa Wolpe, was hard to beat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coloradoshakes.org\/plays\/2015\/othello\">http:\/\/www.coloradoshakes.org\/plays\/2015\/othello<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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 &#8212; charming, witty, always ready with a good joke or a reluctant piece of advice.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the cast is solid, including a not-unassuming Emilia (Vanessa Morosco) and a strong Desdemona (Laura Baranik).<\/p>\n<p>Went all three of us, along with <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/109916779695016690032\" oid=\"109916779695016690032\">Stan Pedzick<\/a><\/span> and <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/117988773741178276041\" oid=\"117988773741178276041\">Mary Oswell<\/a><\/span>, and a fine, if tragic, time was had by all.<\/p>\n<p>Some other good articles on the show:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/news\/story\/emmy-winner-peter-macon-shakespearean-themes-still-hold-true\">https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/news\/story\/emmy-winner-peter-macon-shakespearean-themes-still-hold-true<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.westword.com\/arts\/geoffrey-kent-on-swordfights-playing-iago-and-the-colorado-shakespeare-season-6834626\">http:\/\/www.westword.com\/arts\/geoffrey-kent-on-swordfights-playing-iago-and-the-colorado-shakespeare-season-6834626<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.westword.com\/arts\/review-geoffrey-kent-steals-the-show-as-iago-in-the-csfs-othello-6856257\">http:\/\/www.westword.com\/arts\/review-geoffrey-kent-steals-the-show-as-iago-in-the-csfs-othello-6856257<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/coloradodrama.com\/othello4.html\">http:\/\/coloradodrama.com\/othello4.html<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RhPPQp4mocU' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/1q5rS3Fxuj6'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went to the Colorado Shakespeare Festival&#39;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/19\/stage-review-othello.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stage Review: &quot;Othello&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-stage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51792,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/18\/getting-ready-to-see-othello-at-the-colorado-shakespeare-festival.html","url_meta":{"origin":51789,"position":0},"title":"Getting ready to see &#8220;Othello&#8221; at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 18-Jul-15 7:01pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Getting ready to see \"Othello\" at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival Woot! #csf View on Twitter","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~Tweets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":51790,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/18\/on-the-lookout-for-a-moor-and-his-bestest-friend.html","url_meta":{"origin":51789,"position":1},"title":"On the lookout for a Moor and his bestest friend","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 18-Jul-15 7:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"On the lookout for a Moor and his bestest friend #Othello #csf View on Twitter","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~Tweets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/CKPa9N3UsAAyrZT.jpg%3Alarge.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/CKPa9N3UsAAyrZT.jpg%3Alarge.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/CKPa9N3UsAAyrZT.jpg%3Alarge.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/CKPa9N3UsAAyrZT.jpg%3Alarge.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":51557,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/22\/stage-review-much-ado-about-nothing.html","url_meta":{"origin":51789,"position":2},"title":"Stage Review: &quot;Much Ado about Nothing&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 22-Jun-15 2:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"We're hitting a bunch of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival (http:\/\/www.coloradoshakes.org\/) shows this year, and their production of Much Ado, which we saw last Saturday, is a good example why. 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