Othello Blacking Up
- Synopsis
- Video posted to YouTube in 2011. A white male actor sits before a mirror and is blacked up by a male make-up artist; the process is repeated on a white female actor. The two actors are then seated together and the man rejects her embrace. When they leave the make-up artists smiles in a sinister way and shows his hand and arms (which are covered in the black pancake) to the camera. There is a close-up shot of the Arden edition of Othello, Verdi’s Otello is used as a score throughout.
- Medium
- Video
- Notes
- Accessed 9/2016.
- Keywords
- race relations; Othello (character)
Related
- Name
Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT)
- toft@nypl.org
- Web
- http://www.nypl.org/locations/lpa/theatre-film-and-tape-archive External site opens in new window
- Phone
- + 1 (212) 870-1642
- Fax
- (212) 8701868
- Address
- Billy Rose Theatre Collection
40 Lincoln Center Plaza
New York,New York
10023-7498
USA
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