%0 Journal Article
%T Othello¡¯s ¡®travels¡¯ history¡¯ illuminated anew: Beyond black and white in Iqbal Khan¡¯s RSC revival (2015)
%A Susan L Fischer
%J Cahiers ¨¦lisab¨¦thains
%@ 2054-4715
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0184767818808422
%X Two consummate black actors took on the lead roles in Iqbal Khan¡¯s 2015 revival of Othello with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC): the British-Ghanaian actor Hugh Quarshie played Othello and the British-Tanzanian/Zimbabwean actor Lucian Msamati made theatre history as the RSC¡¯s first black Iago. The play did not come across as either Othello- or Iago-centred but as a choreographed dance between Quarshie and Msamati, which involved trustable coordination with the cast. Their performances in a multicultural and racially diverse world increased the available data to arrest our spectating gaze and so expanded received notions of what the play is ¡®about¡¯
%K William Shakespeare
%K Othello
%K performance criticism
%K Iqbal Khan
%K race
%K William Shakespeare
%K Othello
%K analyse de mise en sc¨¨ne
%K Iqbal Khan
%K race
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0184767818808422