TITLE:
Othello. [videorecording]
Publication Date:
2002
Publication Information:
[Silver Spring, Md.] : Acorn Media,
Physical Description:
1 videocassette (96 min.)
Additional Contributors:
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781569385210
General Note:
VHS.
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.