My first Shakespearean production
In October 2011 I started recruiting students for a reading rehearsal of my play A handkerchief spotted with strawberries.
It was a play on the wings of Shakespeare's Othello but from a Cypriot perspective since Shakespeare uses Cyprus just as an exotic place, far away from Venice were the foreigner Othello can have power over the Venetians.
The scene was at a sea port in Cyprus. Was it Limassol, Larnaca, or Famagusta? The latter is more likely. So I inserted a historical context in the play, Cypriot protagonists, and a Stoppard-ian feeling.
It echoes of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead which was on the wings of Hamlet, again with shifted perspective
The play was staged at the European University Cyprus in May 2012. It wasn't what I call a success but it was a fascinating experience and I'd like to do it again.
This is the poster for the play's production.
Image courtesy to Gareth Christodoulou.
It was a play on the wings of Shakespeare's Othello but from a Cypriot perspective since Shakespeare uses Cyprus just as an exotic place, far away from Venice were the foreigner Othello can have power over the Venetians.
The scene was at a sea port in Cyprus. Was it Limassol, Larnaca, or Famagusta? The latter is more likely. So I inserted a historical context in the play, Cypriot protagonists, and a Stoppard-ian feeling.
It echoes of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead which was on the wings of Hamlet, again with shifted perspective
The play was staged at the European University Cyprus in May 2012. It wasn't what I call a success but it was a fascinating experience and I'd like to do it again.
This is the poster for the play's production.
Image courtesy to Gareth Christodoulou.
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