Author: Sarah Downs

In the Othello in the West End Theatre’s small playing space, Bedlam is creating a whole world with a whisper of a set, a small lighting grid and a ton of imagination.  In the hands of innovative artists, restrictions don’t hamper, they inspire.  Four intrepid actors have taken on the extraordinary task of performing Shakespeare’s famous tragedy in full, playing all of the roles themselves, and they are hitting it out of the park.  Such is the skill of these actors, they shape shift between characters seamlessly, delivering the play’s operatic scale and human drama with fingertip immediacy.  Director Eric Tucker, who also portrays Iago, paces the work so it drives forward without feeling pushed, deftly herding the story’s many moving parts to build a fortress of jealousy and betrayal that is at once explosive and ice cold. Don’t miss it.