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Othello review: Mellow Othello plays down the lust, rage and domestic violence, writes PATRICK MARIMON
PATRICK MARIMON: You don't need to be all woke to find Shakespeare's Othello uncomfortable to watch. After all, this is a play that climaxes in what can only be described as an honour killing.
Starring John Douglas Thompson as the titular General, with Juliet Rylance as Desdemona and Will Keen as the scheming squaddie Iago who deceives Othello, Carroll turns the play into a lofty, ceremonial dirge. Challenging them all is Debbie and Phil's son Trevor — Gabriel Howell, announcing each scene with a scornful teenage eye-roll and rounding off the first half with a demolition of the comfy materialism of his parents and the 'ten thousand wasted years' of religion and ritual of the Israelis. But the high point is a bonkers powwow in the second half between an alarmed Queen Victoria (Breffni Holahan) and Almighty God (Will Bliss) - who assures her that if she does the right thing she will be remembered in posterity by some of the nation's finest actors in The Crown on TV.
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