Othello’s producer, Margie Coppen, says: “We are delighted to participate in ASSITEJ’s vitally important project aimed at encouraging young people to embrace the culture of theatre-going. We have had more rural schools attending our production of Othello this year as many more of these schools teach English as a first language.”
Now celebrating its sixth anniversary, Think Theatre’s acclaimed production of
Othello is currently playing to packed houses of schools audiences in Durban before touring to Gauteng in May this year.
Presented in association with The Playhouse Company, the production is directed as in previous seasons by Clare Mortimer, whose skills as an award-winning performing arts practitioner are strongly enhanced by her experience as a writer and a respected English teacher.
Offering an invaluable learning aid for secondary school learners studying Shakespeare’s stage tragedy as a set work, Think Theatre’s production of
Othello continues to be widely appreciated by school teachers, learners and their parents.
Schools performances are at 09:00 and Noon, Mondays to Fridays. Tickets cost R55 (R80 for adults attending the public performance). Booking can be done by phoning Doreen Stanley on 033 343 4884/084 556 0668 or emailing
[email protected].
Durban
Theatre Award winner Nhlakanipho Manqele essays the play’s demanding title role for the first time, playing opposite fellow new-comer, Cara Roberts, who makes her role debut as Desdemona. The rest of the cast, headed by Clinton Small with his award-winning portrayal of the villainous Iago and Mortimer as his wife Emilia, again features Michael Gritten, Daisy Spencer, Marc Kay, Bryan Hiles, Rowan Bartlett and Darren King.
With its central themes of love, envy and betrayal as relevant today as ever before,
Othello continues to draw packed houses, and early advance sales for Think Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy have already started to climb dramatically as have schools reopened for the first term of 2014.
Think Theatre's production of
Othello is supported by the University of Johannesburg.