Yet Olivier’s Othello seems ultimately to be pitted less against Iago than against the Bard himself. Pantherlike, vain and arrogant, Othello first appears sniffing a rose. His skin is dark as ...
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'Star Wars' actor Billy Dee Williams says blackface should be allowed, and that he 'loved' one of its most notorious usesHe also applauded a now-controversial performance by Laurence Olivier, who in 1965 used blackface to play the title role in Shakespeare's "Othello." Williams is best known for playing the charming ...
Othello is also a set text on the post-2015 ... We see archive footage of founder Sir Laurence Olivier, explaining what he wanted it to achieve. Making Shakespeare Contemporary.
Why did a white actor, Laurence Olivier, play the part of Othello? Could that still happen today? How Mary Shelley’s 'Frankenstein' was adapted for the stage by the National Theatre in 2011 ...
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