Toni Morrison Written by
Jenny Barchfield
The Associated Press
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She's but a throwaway mention in Shakespeare's "Othello,"
a one-line reference buried in Act IV of the dense and dark
tale of passion and betrayal. But Barbary —
the African nurse who raised Othello's ill-fated wife,
Desdemona —
is at the very center, the beating heart,
of Toni Morrison's bold re-imagining of the tragedy.
With "Desdemona," a play that opened earlier this month
at the Theatre Nanterre-Amandiers in a Paris suburb
before traveling to San Francisco and New York, the
Nobel laureate probes the hidden suffering and obscured
oppression woven into Shakespeare's tale.
Directed by California-born Peter Sellars, "Desdemona"
is a dialogue between the title character and Barbary
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