National Theatre

Synopsis:

This is a mating ground. There's tension around the pool table, cues in hand. A world of broken glass and beatings in the car park. It's dog eat dog. And its about to kick off...

The country's leading movement theatre company Frantic Assembly, explodes onto the stage with this electrifying take on Shakespeare's most brutal and gripping thriller-tragedy of paranoia, jealousy, sex and murder.

A black man in a white northern town, Othello is a bouncer down the local pub. But his passionate affair with Desdemona exposes them both to fatal manipulation at the hands of Iago with devastating consequences. Fusing a taut adaptation of the classic text with its trademark hard-hitting choreography, Frantic Assembly takes its scalpel to 21st century Britain, exposing prejudice, danger and fear. Here, violence is a way of life and reputation is everything....

Frantic Assembly has been applauded at home and abroad for thrilling, energetic and unforgettable theatre. Vivid and dynamic, its unique physical style mixes movement, design, music and text. Recent work includes Stockholm, Dirty Wonderland, and pool (no water).