![]() And he compensates for his lack of weight by growing in charisma and fire. It is not just a case of killing the thing he loves, but of hardly being able to let her out of his arms. Again, I have seen more distraught Moors, but few who wailed and gasped and touched their Desdemonas with more feeling. Fearon is not the most profound of Othellos, but, thanks to Waites's unaffected warmth, he is one of the most touching. His verse-speaking sounded over-deliberate and his earnestness almost reduced the great, boastful speech about his winning Desdemona to an anthropological lecture in a failing university. Fearon's lack of years seemed to explain why Othello's authority was somewhat lacking too. If the girl can give herself so utterly to a Moor and an alien, why not to Cassio, why not to anybody? Up to the newlyweds' arrival in Cyprus I had been girding myself for a worthy but dull evening. And that is a dramatic gain, for it is this very openness and sexual generosity that Iago can exploit. Indeed, almost more so, given the eagerness with which she strokes him, hugs him, leaves what's here a firework party, and hurries him to bed. "It is clear that Zoe Waites's sweet Desdemona is as physically delighted by Fearon's Othello as he by her. I am playing the part the best way I know how and revealing Shakespeare's work as I and the company see it.'" ~ "The first RSC black Othello", Stratford-upon-Avon Herald, 15 April 1999 'I don't feel I am having to prove something. It's everybody's problem, so deal with it.'" He believes Shakespeare wrote the part for a black actor and said he felt honoured to be playing it, but not under too much pressure. He presents the issues in such a big way that you can't run away from them saying they are somebody else's problem. 'Shakespeare wrote the play 400 years ago, but we still have the same issues going on in 1999. " Ray Fearon, the first black actor to play Othello for the RSC at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, said the play had a lot to say to society in the wake of the Stephen Lawrence murder. The first performance of this production took place on 9 April 1999. (Source: Japanese = .PRINCIPAL CAST: Ray Fearon (Othello) Rachel Joyce (Emilia) Richard McCabe (Iago) Zoe Waites (Desdemona). As soon as Mai and her friends see the videotape, strange and inexplicable phenomena begin to occur around them. It contained rehearsal footage of the first performance 10 years ago. Mai discovers a VHS videotape labelled "DICE" in the company's archives. ![]() Therefore, the leader of the troupe, Mr Shigemori, is more enthusiastic than usual, but he is not satisfied with the performance of the troupe members and is becoming increasingly dissatisfied. ![]() It is a deeply memorable work for the troupe, which was first performed 10 years ago and will make its first performance in Tokyo soon. The piece they are working on this time is "DICE," the troupe's most famous work. The young members of the troupe, including their lead actress Yamaguchi Mai, are working hard on their rehearsals, even skipping their sleep as the Tokyo performance is just around the corner. A small theatre troupe, "ENGINE," has its rehearsal hall in a dirty building near Tsutenkaku Tower, in Osaka.
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