But first, a letter from our Artistic/Executive Director, Carmen Khan about the season:
This year our plays Othello and Much Ado About Nothing examine the microcosm of marriage, and in particular, trust. It is here in our life long partnerships that we finally understand ourselves. What we value. What we are about as opposed to what we say we are about. It is the place where our most personal selves are illuminated, where all of our strengths and weaknesses, our many contradictions are borne out. By exploring the issues closest to our hearts: trust, betrayal, fidelity, deception, and love, Shakespeare is able to show us a reflection of our larger world; our family, community, the entire society and global forces. It is the issue of trust that is front and centre in these two plays. Othello says, “Men should be what they seem.” But in both plays men are not what they seem. In Othello, Iago’s manipulation of Othello is the most bone-chilling deception in all of literature. Why does Iago decide to utterly destroy the fabric of Othello’s being and others? And why doesn’t anyone ask the most simple of questions that could avert this tragedy? In contrast to this, we cross the Mediterranean to sunny Messina for Much Ado About Nothing. Here Shakespeare treats us to a fugue of deceptions, both tragic (almost) and comic—Don John’s deception of his brother and friends; Beatrice and Benedick’s passionately held delusion that they detest each other; and Prince Pedro’s hilarious but kindly deception of those two would-be non-lovers into falling in love. Once again I feel honoured and privileged to be able to delve into the plays of the peerless William Shakespeare in the company of this amazing team of artists, and hope that you will be able to join us this season.
"I can no answer make, but thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks"
Carmen Khan, Artistic/Executive Director
This production of Othello is made possible by the generosity of Mr. Dennis Alter.
Previews: March 8 - March 10, 2013
March 13 - May 18, 2013
Tickets On Sale January 24, 2013
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Previews: March 28 - March 31, 2013
April 3 - May 19, 2013
Tickets On Sale January 24, 2013
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