Othello – review

Shakespeare's Globe, LondonOpening with the DJ blaring out the Sugarhill Gang's Rapper's Delight, this is Shakespeare's tragedy, though not as you may remember it. The latest instalment from the Globe to Globe season is billed as "Othello – performed in hip-hop".This version, updated by the Q Brothers, best known for their 2003 hip-hop adaptation of The Comedy of Errors, is acted and narrated by a cast of four men in jumpsuits (plus that DJ up in the balcony). The lack of scenery or props make...

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