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Oct 25, 2011 · Peter Sellars and Toni Morrison agreed that he would stage Shakespeare’s “Othello” and that she would create a response to the work.
Sep 28, 2009 · Peter Sellars’s exasperatingly misconceived “Othello” stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as Iago and John Ortiz as the title character.
Sep 24, 2009 · Director Peter Sellars sets his modern take on the Shakespeare classic in D.C., and says he found inspiration in recent history: Obama's election and inauguration, and the nomination and ...
May 17, 2022 · Peter Sellars: Toni was never moved by Othello in all the versions of it she saw. Her answer was not to reorient the play racially, but rather to reorient the play in terms of gender.
Oct 22, 2011 · Sellars, a theater director renowned for brazenly refashioning classics, set his Othello in the modern-day world of the United States military. But Sellars newest riff on the play is not a new take on an old play. It is an original play, written by Toni Morrison, about Othello’s wife, Desdemona.
Sep 28, 2009 · Does having a non-black Othello truly make you confront your own prejudices? Has Sellars unintentionally given in to the racism that sometimes infects the white-oriented theatrical avant-garde?
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Nov 3, 2011 · The irreverent director Peter Sellars has said he thinks “Othello” is a terrible play, but does he need to work so hard to prove it to us?
