2006-10-27 22:59:23 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
I've been in the show three times. The first time, I played the role of the Duke of Venice. A few nice speeches, but the guy's only in the first act.
Second time around, I played Iago, which I consider to be one of the best roles in all of English dramatic literature. I got to perform the role about 125 times, on a national tour, and it was a wild roller coaster of an experience, let me tell you.
The last time I was in the play, I doubled as Brabantio and Lodovico.
Naturally, if I had the opportunity to do it again, I'd love another crack at Iago. It's one of those roles that you can NEVER get to the bottom of.
2006-10-28 01:22:06 · answer #1 · answered by shkspr 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
IAGO - Such a difficult role to portray well and realitically. But also has so many levels to explore as an actor, and would love to jsut get my teeth into something evil for once!!
2006-10-28 16:46:04 · answer #2 · answered by Michael 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Girl role - DESDEMONA - The character of Desdemona is one of the most admirable, and yet most pitiful, in all of Shakespeare. She is completely innocent, unable to comprehend how her husband can be jealous when "I never gave him cause!" (III.iv.155). The other women in the play are the cynical Emilia and Cassio's mistress, Bianca: contrasted with these two, Desdemona stands as an icon of female purity. Her love for Othello is as strong as his for her--indeed, she asserts it even as she goes to her death--and plagued by none of the insecurities and vulnerabilities that lay his love open to Iago's machinations. Unlike Othello, she bears no responsibility for the tragedy--she is the only blameless victim of the villain's work.
Guy role - OTHELLO - Othello is, in one sense of the word, by far the most romantic figure among Shakespeare's heroes; and he is so partly from the strange life of war and adventure which he has lived from childhood. He does not belong to our world, and he seems to enter it we know not whence -- almost as if from wonderland. There is something mysterious in his descent from men of royal siege; in his wanderings in vast deserts and among marvellous peoples; in his tales of magic handkerchiefs and prophetic Sibyls; in the sudden vague glimpses we get of numberless battles and sieges in which he has played the hero and has borne a charmed life; even in chance references to his baptism, his being sold to slavery, his sojourn in Aleppo. And he is not merely a romantic figure; his own nature is romantic.
2006-10-28 06:15:12 · answer #3 · answered by Mirus Era 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Have done (Iago). But I much preferred playing Prospero in "The Tempest."
"We are such stuff as dreams are made of -- and our little life is rounded with a sleep."
2006-10-28 07:16:24 · answer #4 · answered by Jack 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It woud be interesting to play Iago, he is the most complex character, but since I am a woman ti would be even more complex.
2006-10-28 06:14:40 · answer #5 · answered by bestfriendthemom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Iago, without a doubt. He was the only one who really had a clue. And antisocial personality disorder as a nice bonus. :)
2006-10-28 14:54:51 · answer #6 · answered by Amanda 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Iago- because he has the most power, he is the one manipulating everybody
2006-10-28 08:48:41 · answer #7 · answered by EnglishRose... 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I want the full hambone. The Big O himself.
2006-10-28 06:02:12 · answer #8 · answered by martino 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
merchant of venice
2006-10-28 07:35:45 · answer #9 · answered by .................................... 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋