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Othello at Shakespeare's Globe review: arresting update set in the toxic Met Police feels horribly credible

Source: Johan Persson

In Ola Ince’s intimate, powerful production, Shakespeare’s study of envy, racism and misogyny is transposed with depressing ease from 16th century Venice to the contemporary . If one bold concept weren’t enough, Ken Nwosu’s DCI also wrestles at moments of high emotion with an identically-clad Subconscious Othello (Ira Mandela Siobhan).

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