![]() The script of “ Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice” was first published posthumously in 1622. With exclusive rights to Shakespeare’s plays, the King’s Men performed Othello frequently at both their venues – Blackfriars Theatre in south-west London and Globe Theatre in central London – during Shakespeare’s lifetime and after his death in 1616 until the company was dissolved in the 1640s when Parliament forced theaters to close during the English Civil War. Shakespeare likely adapted Othello from the tale “Un Capitano Moro” that appeared in the 1565 collection Gli Hecatommithi by Cinthio, pseudonym of the Italian writer Giovanni Battista Giraldi. ![]() Written by William Shakespeare sometime between 16, the play was performed by the King’s Men playing company, of which King James I was patron and Shakespeare was co-owner, playwright in residence and a company actor. ![]() The first recorded performance of “ The Moor of Venice” was in 1604 at the Banqueting House of the Palace of Whitehall in Westminster (central London). In his jealousy, Iago seeks an opportunity to ruin both men and finds it when they are all sent to Cyprus to defend the strategically located island against the Ottoman Empire. He angers Iago, one of his high ranking soldiers, when he passes him over for promotion in favor of the untested gentleman soldier Michael Cassio. “Some of the greatest poetry Shakespeare ever wrote” (Chicago Tribune), Othello, the Moor of Venice traces the tragic downfall of Othello, a Moor and a mercenary who became general of the Venetian armies during the time of the Italian Renaissance. I’m thrilled to work with these two very talented local actors.” Over the past year, it became clear to me that Craig Marker was that actor. One of the things that we both agreed on was that we’d wait until we found an actor to play Iago that complimented Aldo’s Moor. It just so happened that actor Aldo Billingslea and I had been eager to collaborate on Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello since we first met in 2006. “After our production of Bill Cain’s Equivocation,” said Minadakis, “I was amazed at the number of our patrons who contacted me to say that they very much wanted to see a Shakespeare play at MTC. MTC’s Artistic Director Jasson Minadakis, who previously served as the producing artistic director of Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival and has directed 19 Shakespeare productions, directs this timeless, tragic tale of love, deceit, jealousy and murder. MILL VALLEY, CA-Marin Theatre Company presents William Shakespeare’s Othello, the Moor of Venice from March 29 to April 22. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S OTHELLO, THE MOOR OF VENICE
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