What if Desdemona wasn’t just the hapless victim of Iago’s treachery and Othello’s jealousy? What if she was more – a richer, more complex character than anything Shakespeare imagined?
Pulitzer-winning playwright Paula Vogel creates a riveting, hilarious, and moving reimagining in Desdemona, a play about a handkerchief. In the tradition of Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Vogel flips the script and shows us the world through the eyes of Shakespeare’s women: Desdemona, the tragic Moor’s young wife who yearns to know the world and doesn’t mind who she has to sleep with to see it; Emilia, Desdemona’s fiesty servant and Iago’s longsuffering wife who yearns for the day he makes her a wealthy widow; and Bianca, the wily yet naive prostitute whose dreams of settling down with Casio are as doomed as Desdemona herself.
Discover the world of Shakespeare’s heroine as neither you nor he ever dreamed. Desdemona, a play about a handkerchief is a fast paced romp, a delicious feminist deconstruction, and heartfelt exploration
of women’s roles and relationships throughout the ages.
There’s more to the story. Come see for yourself.
