Donmar Under Othello Transfer Pressure???
Date: 17 December 2007
It’s little surprise that Donmar Warehouse artistic director
Michael Grandage is under pressure to transfer his current production of
Othello to the commercial West End. The Shakespeare – starring Donmar alumni
Chiwetel Ejiofor as Othello,
Ewan McGregor as Iago and
Kelly Reilly as Desdemona – finishes its sell-out run at the Donmar (where tickets are reportedly being resold for thousands of pounds) on 23 February 2008. The West End’s major producers and theatre owners have all been in to see the show and are apparently falling over themselves trying to woo Grandage into taking it into one of their playhouses.
Ultimately, though, the production’s fate will be decided less by the director than by the availability – always limited - of the show’s big-name stars.
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