I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips
He that is robbed
not wanting what is stolen,
let him not know it and he's not robbed at all
You treat every classic like a new play
and you treat every new play like a classic
and so we start from a place of trying to access who those
characters are for the first time
Dost thou in conscience think—tell me, Emilia—
That there be women do abuse their husbands in such gross kind?
There be some such, no question
Wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world?
Why would not you?
So I think we're really interested in having a production
that is not so much set in a particular time or context
but which is really focusing on these amazing relationships
By heaven, I do not, gentlemen.
The Arts Show is one of the biggest shows on the Cambridge calendar
because it gives the opportunity for students to work with a professional
director and professional production team as well as perform in a
professional theatre and also the idea is that we invite agents so it's an
opportunity to essentially showcase yourself as you would do at a
drama school before you graduate from university
But I do think it is thou husband's faults, if wives do fall.
Why then Othello and Desdemona return again to Venice?
Basically rehearsals are like 10 till 6 every day
which I think is slightly different to how
plays normally work Cambridge theatre
I think everyone becomes even closer because of it
I think the way that this production has worked
I think the way that John works is that he works in drafts
so you'll do basically a draft of the whole play essentially
we block the play quite quickly within the first two weeks
and then you go back you do more drafts
and you like put details in and stuff
10 till 6 every day is like a full-time job
so it feels like you're being an actor
whereas in other student productions
you're doing a degree
and you're running around the place
coincidentally doing the play
whereas this is first and foremost
Signior it is the Moor
You, Roderigo! Come, sir, I am for you
In a student production, you're doing it in week 5, it's week 1
you'll get this, learn your lines, off you go
whereas because you have so much time
we had the chance to really look at all the monologues
soliloquies, the scenes, like what does that word mean?
Because Shakespeare's mad sometimes
If sanctimony and a frail vow betwixt an
erring barbarian and a supersubtle Venetian
be not too hard for my wits and all the tribes of hell
thou shalt enjoy her
Therefore put money in thy purse!
A pox of drowning thyself!
I need a dictionary for that
Yeah!
If it's a student production
we just pretend we know mandragora means
Yeah
We're like: 'can you just get the Arden edition please?'
Yeah, so true
Ah and ooohhh then I can deliver it nicer
I know a lady in Venice that would walk barefoot to Palestine
for a touch of his nether lip!
So we're very lucky with the Marlowe Society
that we have such an extensive list of alumni
so this year we were very lucky that Ian McKellan
when he came and did his tour to Cambridge
donated parts of his profit towards the Arts Show
and so we are directly very thankful to Ian McKellen
for the Arts Show being put on this year
I wanted to get involved because
I was a student about 7 or 8 years ago
I was on the Marlowe committee and directed two shows
and that was a really formative part of my experience at Cambridge
I think Cambridge is just such a breeding ground for
drama and theatre anyway
but it was really alumni coming back and talking to us
about their experiences of the industry that made it feel possible
Tying her duty
DUTY!
Beauty
BEAUTY!
Wit and fortunes in an extravagant
and wheeling stranger of here and everywhere
Everywhereeeeee....
[background laughter]
Yeah, okay cool, let's keep that, I think that's really nice, good
So shall I learn those lines?
Yes please