news, views and reviews of Shakespeare on film (and in the Pacific Northwest)
Posted in Dan Donohue, OSF, Othello on Sep 4th, 2008
Having seen the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 2008 production of Othello twice now, I have two strong recommendations: 1) See it while you still can—it only plays in the outdoor Elizabethan through early October, and, 2) Get seats as close to the stage as you can beg, borrow or steal.
The Elizabethan is a big outdoor venue, [...]
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 Apr 23rd, 2008
Ever since I began writing The Mystery of Things, I’ve had a fascination for Shakespeare’s villains in general and Iago in particular. It’s the “why?” question, as Dan Donohue, one of our favorite actors, points out in a lively and revealing interview on the Oregon Shakespeare Festival website called “Playing Iago.”
My favorite quote, besides “You’ll [...]
Posted in Actors, Branagh, Othello, the Bard on stage on Feb 25th, 2008
Branagh and McGregor appeared on the British interview show “Parkinson.” Branagh is talking about “Sleuth” and McGregor discusses his performance as Iago in a stage production of Othello.
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.
