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***** Clouds Othello Riverside Studios Hammersmith, London 3hrs 20mins (including interval) On tour 2hrs 15mins (including interval) ***** Murderer Menier Chocolate Factory Southwark, London 2hrs 20mins (including interval) Othello is Shakespeare's most tightly focused, compelling tragedy, the one that invariably has me gagging to stand up and yell: 'Calm down, Othello, you're crazy. All the smut and scandal Iago is heaping on your wife is not just implausible, it's impossible.' More so than ever in Declan Donnellan's thrilling, psychologically penetrating, modern-dress production.
The moment Jonny Phillips's weaselly, dead-eyed lieutenant Iago says to Othello of his lovely Desdemona, 'She has deceived her father, she may thee', he infects the general's heart with the cancer of distrust, which grows almost visibly, spreading fatally.See the full content of this document
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A Wicked Whisper
Phillips's horribly nasal, insidious manner is as mesmerising as a hypnotherapist, and against such devilish manipulation these naive newlyweds haven't a snowflake's hope in hell.
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