Othello: The 30-Minute Shakespeare. William Shakespeare
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Название: Othello: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

Автор: William Shakespeare

Издательство: Ingram

Жанр: Учебная литература

Серия: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

isbn: 9781935550228

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СКАЧАТЬ Shakespeare were first rehearsed in a D.C. public high school English class, and performed successfully at the Folger Shakespeare Library’s annual Secondary School Shakespeare Festival. The players were not necessarily “actor types.” For many of them, this was their first performance in a play.

      Something almost miraculous happens when students perform Shakespeare. They “get” it. By occupying the characters and speaking the words out loud, students gain a level of understanding and appreciation that is unachievable by simply reading the text. That is the magic of a performance-based method of learning Shakespeare, and this book makes the formerly daunting task of staging a Shakespeare play possible for anybody.

      With The 30-Minute Shakespeare book series I hope to help teachers and students produce a Shakespeare play in a short amount of time, thus jump-starting the process of discovering the beauty, magic, and fun of the Bard. Plot, theme, and language reveal themselves through the performance of these half-hour play cuttings, and everybody involved receives the priceless gift of “owning” a piece of Shakespeare. The result is an experience that is fun and engaging, and one that we can all carry with us as we play out our own lives on the stages of the world.

       NICK NEWLIN

       Brandywine, MD

       March 2010

       CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY

      The following is a list of the characters that appear in this cutting of Othello.

      Twenty-eight actors performed in the original production. This number can be increased to about thirty or decreased to about fifteen by having actors share or double roles.

      For the full breakdown of characters, see Sample Program.

      IAGO: An ensign and villain; husband to Emilia

      RODERIGO: A gullible gentleman trying to woo Desdemona

      BRABANTIO: A senator; father to Desdemona

      DUKE: Duke of Venice, a great admirer of Othello

       MESSENGER

      FIRST SENATOR: A senator in the council chamber

      DESDEMONA: Wife to Othello, daughter to Brabantio

      CASSIO: An honorable lieutenant

      MONTANO: Governor of Cyprus

      LODOVICO: A noble Venetian, brother to Brabantio

      EMILIA: Wife to Iago

      BIANCA: A courtesan

       SOLDIERS

       SINGERS

       NARRATOR

      

SCENE 1. (ACT I, SCENE I)

      Venice. A street.

      STAGEHANDS set bench center stage, downstage of pillars.

      SOUND OPERATOR plays Sound Cue #1, (“Ominous music”).

      Enter BRABANTIO from stage left, lying down on bench to sleep.

      Enter NARRATOR from stage rear, coming downstage center.

       NARRATOR

      In the streets of Venice, Roderigo and Iago inform

      the Senator, Brabantio, of his daughter Desdemona’s

      secret marriage to Othello. Enraged, Brabantio sets

      out in search of his daughter.

      Exit NARRATOR stage right.

      Enter IAGO and RODERIGO from stage left.

       IAGO

      Call up her father,

      Rouse him, poison his delight.

       RODERIGO

      What ho, Brabantio! Signior Brabantio, ho!

       IAGO

      Awake! Brabantio! Look to your daughter!

      BRABANTIO awakes. He stands on bench and looks down, as though from a balcony.

       BRABANTIO

      What is the matter there?

       IAGO

      ’Zounds, sir! Even now, now, very now, an old black

      ram is tupping your white ewe. You’ll have your

      daughter covered with a Barbary horse, you’ll have

      your nephews neigh to you! Your daughter and the

      Moor are making the beast with two backs.

       BRABANTIO

      Give me a taper. Call up my people. Light, I say,

      light!

      Exit ALL stage right.

      STAGEHANDS remove bench and place table, set with maps, downstage center.

      

SCENE 2. (ACT I, SCENE III)

      Venice. A council-chamber.

      Enter NARRATOR from stage rear, coming downstage center.

       NARRATOR

      The Duke, preparing for a Turkish invasion of Cyprus, welcomes the arrival of Othello and Brabantio. Brabantio announces his dismay at Desdemona’s marriage to Othello. Iago begins to outline his plot to use Cassio in order to make Othello jealous.

      Enter DUKE and FIRST SENATOR from stage left. They move СКАЧАТЬ