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Posted in Dan Donohue, OSF, Othello on Aug 11th, 2008
Oregon Shakespeare Festival actor Dan Donohue as Iago wretches and heaves on the outdoor Elizabethan stage, consumed by jealousy. He hates the Moor (title character, Othello). And his hatred sucks the life blood of all he touches. He’s a sort of human “black hole” with a seemingly bottomless capacity to wreck havoc.
Lisa Peterson directs the [...]
Posted in Dan Donohue, OSF, Othello, the Bard on stage on Sep 22nd, 2007
John recently read in the Eugene Weekly that Dan Donohue, who played (wonderfully) Mercutio and Caliban this season, has been cast as the greatest stage villain of all time in the 2008 OSF production of Othello.
Yes, boys and girls, Iago.
We here in Clan Murphy hoped so very much that this was true. Indeed, the moment [...]
Shakespeare's Othello meets Spenser's Faerie Queene in this new and provocative mystery-thriller set in Milwaukee.
This is the story of James Ireton, a gifted young Shakespeare scholar haunted by a tragic past and recurring nightmares of a Knight, a Lady and a vicious Dragon. James thinks they’re just dreams, but when two people close to him fall victim in a seemingly motive-less series of brutal murders, James discovers there may be a very real Dragon preying in the shadows of his life. Worse, if he doesn’t find a bit of St. George in himself, the woman he loves may prove the Dragon’s ultimate victim.