Acting
Blake's Othello crumbles with devastating specificity.
Direction
Avrich's camera invades the stage's intimacy.
Production
Minimalist staging amplifies psychological tension.

Director
Barry Avrich
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This production notably cast a Black actor as Othello without the traditional accompanying white actor as Iago, subverting typical racial dynamics in modern stagings.
Filmed during the 2019 Stratford season, this captured one of the last major theatrical runs before pandemic closures—preserving a specific moment in Canadian theatre history.