(For those unfamiliar with “Othello,” serious spoilers ... emotional claustrophobia and — more important for future productions — the sense of characters shaped and confined by a military ...

As a result they provide key characters in his plays – like Lady Macbeth in Macbeth or Desdemona in Othello – raising really important issues. Narrator: Women were valued so little in society ...

The actor injects notes of ingratiating charm into his character's evil ... can generate heat. Key dialogue is treated almost disposably, nowhere more so than in Othello's "It is the cause ...