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Eamonn Walker, Christopher Eccleston, Keeley Hawes, Bill Paterso n, Richard Coyle, Rachael Stirling.

A powerful black man in a white society. Acclaimed screenwriter Andrew Davies takes these themes from Shakespeare and reworks them into an achimgly intense contemporary story set in present-day London. As racial tensions threaten to explode, political forces propel John Othello into a high-profile public role over the head of his best friends and mentor Ben Jago. Seething with jealousy, Jago maintains a facade as the loyal confidant while seizing on Othello's obsessive love for his beautiful wife Dessie, as the path to his destruction.

Recommended for mature audiences.