White Angst meets Othello - Casting Conundrums

Abstract

This article responds to the charge that the casting decisions  for my play, Othello on Trial - specifically, the casting of a white man in the role of Othello, the defendant, is tantamount to "whitewashing". It outlines the research basis for this casting decision, namely, my own criminological studies of English courts' handling of intimate partner femicide cases; critical race studies and critical race Shakespeare scholarship.