By Paula Vogel
Directed by Melia Bensussen
Featuring graduate acting students in the A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University
Having slept with Othello’s entire encampment, Desdemona revels in her bawdy tales of conquest. Her foils and rapt listeners are the other integral and re-imagined women of this Shakespeare tragedy: Emilia, Desdemona’s servant and the wife of Iago, and Bianca, now a majestic whore of Cyprus.
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Credits
Ingrid Werner – Emilia
Lize Johnston – Desdemona
Kay Smith – Bianca