Theatre

Othello

Mokhallad Rasem, Toneelhuis

“My love is not my love, I no longer recognize him.”

After Romeo & Julia and Hamlet Symphony, director Mokhallad Rasem has again taken a play of Shakespeare’s as the starting point for a special adaptation. In Othello, he assembles text, images and music into a contemporary fable.</p>


 
Othello, Desdemona and Iago: the story of two friends and a couple. Jealousy, mistrust and fear gradually destroy their love and friendship. Mokhallad Rasem concentrates on the tension between three people who are being driven apart. The abuse and murder of a person is so much more damaging than a war. Can you really trust a person that you do not know and perhaps will never know entirely?

In a visual, musical production in which doubt, imagination and reality continually interweave, a friendship and a love relationship are cast in a different light.

“This Othello successfully holds the spectator’s attention and makes emotions palpable through music and film. We completely understand what it’s about. It is topical and close to us.” - Eline Van de Voorde on Cobra.b, 29 March 2015

“The play rises above the themes of personal jealousy, discrimination and power, and acquires a political dimension…. With film footage and enlarged projections, a soundscape, restrained acting and live music, Rasem and his actors, dramaturges and the entire team create an atmosphere that despite all of its darkness radiates beauty. An atmosphere that makes a lasting impression. Can we actually live together at all? Should we distrust each other and ourselves? Aren’t we all lying to one another?” –Tuur Devens on Theaterkrant.nl, 27 March 2015

director

  • Mokhallad Rasem

dramaturgy

  • Erwin Jans

text

  • Jurgen Delnaet
  • Jan Decorte

adaptation

  • Roos Euwe
  • Mokhallad Rasem
  • Filip Jordens
  • Roy Aernouts
  • Julia Ghysels

script based on

  • William Shakespeare

performance

  • Jurgen Delnaet
  • Maya Sannen
  • Mieke De Groote

with

  • Filip Jordens
  • Roy Aernouts
  • Julia Ghysels

scenography

  • Mokhallad Rasem

assistance of the director

  • Roos Euwe

artistic assistance & dramaturgy

  • Roos Euwe

production

  • De Tijd
  • Toneelhuis

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  4. Sunday 29 March 2015 — 16h00 — Bourlaschouwburg, Antwerpen
  5. Tuesday 31 March 2015 — 21h00 — Bourlaschouwburg, Antwerpen
  6. Thursday 2 April 2015 — 21h00 — Bourlaschouwburg, Antwerpen
  7. Friday 3 April 2015 — 21h00 — Bourlaschouwburg, Antwerpen
  8. Saturday 4 April 2015 — 21h00 — Bourlaschouwburg, Antwerpen
  9. Wednesday 8 April 2015 — De Schuur, Haarlem
  10. Thursday 9 April 2015 — 30CC/Schouwburg, Leuven
  11. Saturday 11 April 2015 — VIERNULVIER/Theaterzaal, Gent
  12. Saturday 7 November 2015 — C-mine/Grote zaal, Genk
  13. Tuesday 12 January 2016 — BRONKS, Brussel
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  16. Saturday 1 October 2016 — 21h00 — Bourlaschouwburg, Antwerpen
  17. Thursday 18 May 2017 — Bremer Shakespeare Company, Bremen, Duitsland, Bremen
  18. Saturday 20 May 2017 — Bremer Shakespeare Company, Bremen, Duitsland, Bremen

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