OTHELLO BECOMES A WEREWOLF SHAKESPEARE TWIST

Source:Martlet.ca

Othello may be a werewolf amidst vampires in the Big Ideas club production that ran in Vertigo last week, but the crew doesn’t want any association with Twilight.

Director Jesse Cooper said he’s drawn from such influences as Underwold, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and even The Crow — but inevitably, the show will be compared to the Nancy Meyers saga.

“We’re going in a very different direction; we’ve got a gothic-melodrama vibe happening,” said Cooper.

In his vision of the play, Othello is a vital, exotic character who has the life sucked out of him by the soulless vampires that surround him.

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This seems to be happening to a lot of literary and historical figures. Lincoln’s a Vampire Hunter – Pride and Prejudice now comes with Zombies, and Othello’s a werewolf. I’m waiting to see what’s next (I have some ideas of what i’d like to see, too!).

In all honesty , this sounds pretty cool – and Shakespeare himself used supernatural beings and concepts in his plays, ‘A Mid Summer Night’s Dream’ (with fairies and other supernatural beings), ‘Hamlet’ (ghosts), and of course ‘Othello’ itself (witches). It would be interesting to watch.

What do you think of these supernatural additions to old stories? Would would you like to see go supernatural that isn’t (if anything)? Why do you think this idea (to change classic stories to have a supernatural twist) is becoming popular now? Would you see this production?

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