At the end of Act One in Shakespeare’s play, Othello is dispatched from Venice to command the garrison on the island of Cyprus, a strategic outpost on the eastern rim of the Mediterranean that is ...

But several of the cast members seize the day — including Laurence Fishburne, a sometimes astonishingly moving Othello. Set along Venetian canals and in Cypriot palaces, above crashing oceans ...

Shakespeare vaulted the structure to international fame by making Cyprus the scene of his tragedy’s denouement in which Othello kills his love Desdemona in a fit of jealous rage. One of the ...

As with all of the NT Live productions, Othello will be screened in its original English and will include Greek and English subtitles. Eleni is the Cyprus Mail’s What’s On writer who produces ...

Starring Laurence Fishburne as the eponymous Othello, the film adapts the legendary story from stage to the screen. Following the same plot of the play, Iago (Kenneth Branagh) manipulates the Venetian ...