Lockdown must be making me irritable; an article during the week really got me going. It concerns two forthcoming productions of Othello: one of Shakespeare’s play by Queensland Theatre Company and the other, by Opera Australia, of Verdi’s opera Otello, and makes the absurd proposition that ‘it’s unthinkable (in the era of Black Lives Matter) that a white man would be cast as Othello’.
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