Simon Callow on OTHELLO
Othello • 21m
In this interview, filmed in 2017, Simon Callow, actor and author of the multivolume biography “Orson Welles,” discusses the production of OTHELLO, especially Welles’s relationship with actors Micheál MacLiammóir and Hilton Edwards.
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Ayanna Thompson on OTHELLO
The question of race is central to OTHELLO. In this interview, filmed in 2017, George Washington University professor Ayanna Thompson, author of “Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race and Contemporary America,” discusses the complicated history of white actors portraying Othello the Moor.
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Joseph McBride on OTHELLO
This 2014 interview features Joseph McBride, author of “What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?”
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François Thomas on OTHELLO
In this interview, recorded in 2017, film scholar François Thomas, coauthor of “Orson Welles at Work,” discusses the different versions of Welles’s OTHELLO.
