Vidar Hjardeng MBE - Othello at the RSC, AD Theatre Review
Season 2, Episode 834, Nov 22, 01:00 PM
RNIB Connect Radio’s Toby Davey is joined again by Vidar Hjardeng MBE, Inclusion and Diversity Consultant for ITV News across England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands for the next in his regular Connect Radio theatre reviews.
This week Vidar was reviewing a new production of Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’ on the Royal Shakespeare Company’s stage in Stratford-upon-Avon where guilt has nowhere to hide, except in hearts and minds with description by Professional Audio Describers Julia Grundy and Annette Stocken.
About ‘Othello’
Othello is at the peak of his powers: not only Venice’s greatest general, but now husband to the noble and beautiful Desdemona. But he does not know that in passing over his servant Iago for promotion, he has created a deadly – and brilliant – enemy.
John Douglas Thompson (Till, Theatre for A New Audience’s The Merchant of Venice) takes the title role opposite Will Keen (Operation Mincemeat, Wolf Hall) as Iago and Juliet Rylance (McMafia, Perry Mason) as Desdemona, in this new production from director Tim Carroll (Artistic Director of Canada’s Shaw Festival and director of the award-winning Twelfth Night and Richard III featuring Mark Rylance at Shakespeare’s Globe, in the West End and on Broadway).
For more about access at the Royal Shakespeare Company along with details of audio described performances of their productions do visit -
https://www.rsc.org.uk/your-visit/access
Image shows the RNIB Connect Radio logo. On a white background ‘RNIB’ written in bold black capital letters and underline with a bold pink line. Underneath the line: ‘Connect Radio’ is written in black in a smaller font.
This week Vidar was reviewing a new production of Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’ on the Royal Shakespeare Company’s stage in Stratford-upon-Avon where guilt has nowhere to hide, except in hearts and minds with description by Professional Audio Describers Julia Grundy and Annette Stocken.
About ‘Othello’
Othello is at the peak of his powers: not only Venice’s greatest general, but now husband to the noble and beautiful Desdemona. But he does not know that in passing over his servant Iago for promotion, he has created a deadly – and brilliant – enemy.
John Douglas Thompson (Till, Theatre for A New Audience’s The Merchant of Venice) takes the title role opposite Will Keen (Operation Mincemeat, Wolf Hall) as Iago and Juliet Rylance (McMafia, Perry Mason) as Desdemona, in this new production from director Tim Carroll (Artistic Director of Canada’s Shaw Festival and director of the award-winning Twelfth Night and Richard III featuring Mark Rylance at Shakespeare’s Globe, in the West End and on Broadway).
For more about access at the Royal Shakespeare Company along with details of audio described performances of their productions do visit -
https://www.rsc.org.uk/your-visit/access
Image shows the RNIB Connect Radio logo. On a white background ‘RNIB’ written in bold black capital letters and underline with a bold pink line. Underneath the line: ‘Connect Radio’ is written in black in a smaller font.