Learning on ScreenDesdemona, A Play About a Handkerchief
- Synopsis
- Video recording of Paula Vogel’s play, a feminist reading of Shakespeare’s Othello and Wolfgang Bauer’s Shakespeare the Sadist which suggests Iago was right about Desdemona all along. The play imagines what the women of Othello are doing when they are not on stage. Vogel reverses the roles making Emilia religious and chaste and Desdemona a nymphomaniac who sleeps with every man except Cassio and spends time moonlighting at Bianca’s brothel.
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Video
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Recording date
- 28 May 1999
Credits
- Director
- Jennifer Ambrosini
- Writer
- Paula Vogel
- Production Design
- Jennifer Stewart
- Costume
- Jennifer Deal
- Cast
Kathleen Coons Michelle Shupe Toni Rae Brotons
Additional Details
- Theatre
- DC Arts Centre
- Theatre company
- Theatre Conspiracy, The
- Production type
- Stage Recordings
- Plays
- Othello
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Archive
- Name
Washington Area Performing Arts Video Archive (WAPAVA)
- leahkim@umd.edu
- Web
- http://www.wapava.org External site opens in new window
- Phone
- (301) 405 9117
- Address
- James J. Taylor Collection
Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland 20742-1630
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