well we open tonight this has been a long journey and i've learned quite a bit. i've been living othello through the process. as an artist i've found there is a huge difference in how african americans and whites approach the work. in the middle of all of this i often found myself struggling to keep the project on a course to find a more othello-centric approach to our production. while at every junction the traditional iago centric view of the play. yesterday during a talk back after 2 years of discussion. our director stated that he feels iago is the driving engine of the play. no wonder i'm exhausted. i understand how the show ends up as it does. when you start outlooking to protect ancillary relationships you lose the story. class, race, age and sex play huge roles in disintegration on this star-crossed couple. if you've ever been the "other" it's nearly impossible to understand the effect it plays on your thought process and what battles you choose to fight. i've never had that manifest itself as strongly as in this process.
