Othello
Event
Words are words: is it known / That the heart is about the ear?
Let us look once again at what "he did not know how to love and loved", as the "Moor of Venice" says of himself. But there is only Othello - the "strange stranger/ from here and everywhere" - because there is Iago, the prophet of resentment and disorder, and because there is the beautiful Desdemona, Shakespearean word meaning "love". Nuno Carinhas focused his gaze on this bizarre love triangle, the most intimate or claustrophobic nucleus of Shakespeare's most poignant "domestic tragedy". The spectacle begins and ends in a darkness that is pierced by light. And it advances, unstoppable, through the shadows of Venice and Cyprus, geographies of order and chaos, surrounded by water, an element that leads, mirrors, distorts. A tragedy par excellence of doubt and vulnerability, Othello appeared at TNSJ one year after Macbeth, forming a Shakespearean diptych where Nuno Carinhas put in perspective two radical and exuberant visions of evil. "You only see evil in full use.
Let us look once again at what "he did not know how to love and loved", as the "Moor of Venice" says of himself. But there is only Othello - the "strange stranger/ from here and everywhere" - because there is Iago, the prophet of resentment and disorder, and because there is the beautiful Desdemona, Shakespearean word meaning "love". Nuno Carinhas focused his gaze on this bizarre love triangle, the most intimate or claustrophobic nucleus of Shakespeare's most poignant "domestic tragedy". The spectacle begins and ends in a darkness that is pierced by light. And it advances, unstoppable, through the shadows of Venice and Cyprus, geographies of order and chaos, surrounded by water, an element that leads, mirrors, distorts. A tragedy par excellence of doubt and vulnerability, Othello appeared at TNSJ one year after Macbeth, forming a Shakespearean diptych where Nuno Carinhas put in perspective two radical and exuberant visions of evil. "You only see evil in full use.
