With Desdemona soon to be staged in Melbourne and Sydney, the director and his lyricist Rokia Traoré discuss working with Nobel laureate Toni MorrisonDesdemona is dead. But only in death, four centuries since audiences first saw Othello suffocate the Venetian beauty on Shakespeare's stage, can Desdemona ask why the Moor of Venice's love swiftly turned to murderous rage. In a new, 21st century concert-play called De…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:55PM on August 3, 2015