Desdemona: A Play About A Handkerchief has now opened at the Park Theatre where it runs until Sunday 8th June 2014. Below is a Guest Blog by the play’s director, James Bounds (pictured below), which was written during the rehearsal process…
We’re just starting our third and final week of rehearsals for Desdemona: A Play About A Handkerchief and I couldn’t be more excited - everything is coming together brilliantly and it’s going to be an amazing show!
The play is similar in some ways to Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead in that it focuses on the supporting characters from one of Shakespeare’s plays (in this case, Desdemona, Emilia and Bianca from Othello) and presents the imagined, off-stage lives these characters have. We find out a bit more about them... and uncover some pretty shocking secrets about who they really are - especially when freed from the gaze of men.
It’s been great fun in rehearsals looking at the characters in Othello and how they appear in Desdemona, it’s a bit like putting together a jigsaw in terms of how the two plays connect and where they cross over.
