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Iago preaches that to Cassio early in the play foreshadowing the ruin pride will bring down on everyone. Shakespeare was at the peak of his powers when he wrote “Othello” around 1603 ...
Othello and Desdemona ... I don’t think Andrew Burnap’s Cassio, notwithstanding that actor’s charming eloquence, gives Washington enough competition. Jake Gyllenhaal, who plays Iago ...
Envious of what Othello has, he takes it ... He and Andrew Burnap, playing Cassio, one of Iago’s many persuadable fools, find nice moments together, largely because they seem like they ...
“Being a famous person has, obviously, its great pros, but it also has its great cons,” says Andrew Burnap, the Tony winner who plays Cassio in “Othello.” “I think he, in his ...
When it does it’s thanks to Gyllenhaal, and co-stars Kimber Elayne Sprawl (as Emelia, Iago’s wife) and Andrew Burnap (Cassio, Othello’s lieutenant). ADVERTISEMENT The first head-scratcher ...
The cast includes Molly Osborne as Othello’s wife Desdemona, “Snow White” star Andrew Burnap as lieutenant Cassio, Kimber Elayne Sprawl as Iago’s wife Emilia and more. This month during ...
As golden boy Cassio, Burnap is crisp and appealing, his drunk scene and the aftermath quite touching. It’s hard to find a straight-up hero in Othello, but Iago’s plain-spoken wife ...
When you come out of Othello mostly thinking how impressive the actors playing Cassio and Emilia were, something’s askew in the balance. Those secondary roles acquire vitality and depth of ...
Where Washington’s interpretation may lack a tragic dimension, it makes perfectly clear why an old codger like Othello would think his young wife lusts for a hot young lieutenant like Cassio.
Does Iago suspect wife Emilia and Othello has made the beast with two backs? Or maybe Emilia and Cassio got their beast on. Is it a racial thing? The bottled up aggression of a warrior?